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Barnacles Poems - Poems about Barnacles

Premium Member For Dan
...It was so very long ago – A thousand days, ten-thousand nights Before the nights of silver stars And days of flying kites So long ago I can’t recall When I try hard, but yet: When I see the i......

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Categories: barnacles, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SANDPIPER SONNET
...The briny’s ebbed and now far out of sight And all around a vast expanse we see With debris left by the retreating sea. And stretch of golden sand, a real delight. On rocks are barnacles there cl......

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Categories: barnacles, animal, beach, food,
Form: Sonnet



In marked territory
...When my inkless isles become drenched with icy wintergreen embers of apologetic auroras ~ and l i f e loses its lyrics in lilith's labyrinth, this soul orchestrating in origami ri......

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Categories: barnacles, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
To The Other Side
...Out of the blue on this summer day Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake Sure what the hell and that is that I will match the older boy’s vim and whim Two strong boys armored ......

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Categories: barnacles, best friend, endurance, father
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Barnicle On My Bum Part 2
...I could never really understand Why some women Won’t give me the time of day And seem to look the other way Or I feel like I’m being hunted And I’m their prey I just don't get it. I get so c......

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Categories: barnacles, confusion, desire, fantasy, funny
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unseaworthy
...Unseaworthy I creak like an old ferry coming in to meet the wharf mindful of less agile passengers but like a wayward skiff my thoughts soon override the pier bounce against its rails, vee......

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Categories: barnacles, age, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Raising and Realizing a New Horizon
...While Jesus was raring and rising Our religion we would be realizing Being an atheist had been disguising How is that for a few buckles of chuckles scrapped by barnacles who had been a natural......

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Categories: barnacles, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Raising and Realizing a New Horizon
...While Jesus was raring and rising Our religion we would be realizing Being an atheist had been disguising How is that for a few buckles of chuckles scrapped by barnacles who had been a natural......

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Categories: barnacles, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
On Myrtle Beach Pier
...I remember the high arc of your line casting into horse-maned waves, strong hands as yet untroubled by trembling, easily reeling smaller fish to throw back in, again and again, a circle of give......

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Categories: barnacles, family, memory, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nest of Skins
...Those fools atop the hill are at it again. Pissing away our money that we never really had. Another trillion or two in debt. To fund the illegal's welfare checks... Another frivolous war fought......

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Categories: barnacles, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sea Scars
...There’s a story here, embedded within a righteous reef of broken silence, where scars remain engraved on sea stars, entangled between sand in empty oyster shells, reminding......

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Categories: barnacles, deep, life, sad, thank
Form: Free verse
Valkyrie's Star
...Time is a fickle thing for those healing. Fear and pain are the feat. Cocooned they must be in self-growt......

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Categories: barnacles, beautiful, discrimination, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Day At the Beach
...Sand and surf of Oahu. Boogie boards and kids. Feeling breathlessly safe. Surrounded by friends - strangers-in-arms safe. Elsewhere in time and space the beaches of Normandy tell a different......

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Categories: barnacles, america, freedom, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dishwasher
...I have an Ultra Quiet with a whir. Frigidaire 24" Built-In White Dishwasher, Energy saver, with hot and cold stir. For a while it did purr. Oh yes, they do make a dishwasher. Naïve people believ......

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Categories: barnacles, old,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Beth Has Left Her Mark And Made Me Smile
...I just met a woman with an aura so positive. We only talked briefly, but she made me smile. It’s a random meeting like this for which we should all live. Those are the ones that stay with us for a......

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Categories: barnacles, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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