Be In The Same Boat Poems - Poems about Be In The Same Boat

Remember as a child playing cards, Go Fish? A child's life and fishing go together, dreaming about catching the big one. How big is the big one? At what age will they catch it? Will it be from land or from a boat? Yes a child will dream about the big one, the big one being on the end of their fishing line. One...

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Out on the ocean drifting, alone Thinking about- "His long and wonderful life" But with every wave pain he endures seeps deeper While sounds of the white caps help him to forget The moon turns the tide to high before dark And so, he ponders; it's time...and he jumps!...

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Minke whales, surface and dive massive baleen lined mouths filter out food our boat keeps its distance ...

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Grueling Smiles is a book about a couple the woman had married a man who had been married Twelve times. She had been married twice and would do anything to keep her current husband loyal to her and there marrage. The book "Grueling Smiles" was written by Mossa Crumbo in 1821. The main character. The asked for a new...

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Broad in the beam not much of a looker this crusty rust-bucket of nuts screws and bolts is a crabby old hooker as luck would have it dolled up trolling for supper at any port in a storm she still gives good service tho' down on her uppers now showing her years deep in the scuppers yet still on the game fishing by night for a living not to...

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Harold John Bray, Jr., Seaman 2C- The last surviving member of the iconic Navy vessel the USS Indianapolis. The Indy was a capitol ship that just returned statewide for major repairs and refitting, following a Japanese Kamikaze attack at Okinawa. Nine members of the crew were killed, a somber time. Harold enlisted in the U.S....

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down went the bobber set the hook and don’t panic reel it in ~ fish fry! ...

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One of the clowns in my circus wants to be ringmaster and crack the whip one of the sailors on board my boat wants to be captain and steer the ship but there's only room for one under the big tophat my dear so they're both out of luck and the buck stops here I have the last and final say tho' not one...

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Years ago I did so choose, to go on a Caribbean clipper ship cruise, and, in addition to several other islands, anchored off Nevis, northwest of Saint Kitts, where, in the late 1780's, Nelson had lived, and still bears traces of his presence today, in various parts, pieces and bits. When our windjammer Skipper informed us, 'Shopping here's good, snorkeling is bad,' I...

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Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight, lit, boat, boats. Fireflies turn our trees into well-lit lodges. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A noontime firefly, dim by daylight, hides behind a pillar. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Firefly watching, the tipsy boatman rocks the...

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I love the blue water, as I am rocked to sleep. The salt air fills my soul, as I dream far away. I am awakening, to a misty sea day. ...

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With smiles they waved goodbye barefoot on the soil that raised them carrying nothing but names and the weight of dreams too heavy for home. They spoke of Europe like it was morning on the other side of night and more prayers than food. Is this hope? To trade the peace of home for a foreign land? Or is it loss leaving love behind for...

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The Skye Boat Song from Starz series, "Outlander", a book series written by,: Diana Gabalden Find me a lad that will give me his hand protect me with body and soul Blood of my blood, bone of my bone He vows in the Gailic of old Here is my heart, here is my hand, Here is my...

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Spring is sprawling out there somewhere in a Bikini on a Beach drinking Beer toes in the sand glass in hand while snowflakes are falling and winter's still here then when good old sunny summer comes (and swallows do too) oh to go Barefoot in a Boat on the sea Barbecue in the garden play Ball in the park fun in the sun 'til evening twilight lowers the night a curtain...

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