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Best Abandon Ship Poems

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Premium Member The Titanic
Collisions avalanche, beneath the icy
Waves, of the North Atlantic.
Birthed in the cradled of Belfast,
A maritime giant, became crimsoned,
By champions shattered tradition,
An ironic omen presence to...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandon ship, adventure, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse



Two Spirits Watching the Ocean of Turmoil
Life is like being a passenger on a luxury ocean liner 
 That is sails across a Sea of Turmoil.
 Passengers feel safe by putting...

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Categories: abandon ship, boat, corruption, life, recovery
Form: Free verse
Instauration
“Abandon ship and from her flee
Better her than all be lost to sea.”
“First Mate, be rendered silent,” is the captain’s plea
“Dear crew, I beg, depart...

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Categories: abandon ship, abuse, growing up, life,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandon ship, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member To Whom It May Unconcern
How can you tell when you've hit bottom and
 it's time to abandon "ship"-does it stare you in the  
falseface and wipe your browmemory...

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Categories: abandon ship, desire, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Yesterday I Was Wrong
Yesterday I proved to myself that
all of my enemies and even some of
my friends were justified in hating me.
Troubles that I had started
seemed impossible to...

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Categories: abandon ship, 11th grade, forgiveness, peace,
Form: Free verse
Jamaica Jubilee Years
Remember it just like yesterday 
'Twas the sixth of August, independence day
Manley called the election, Busta took the drive
New nation at UN assembly, Jamaica arrived
Topsy...

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Categories: abandon ship, anniversary, business,
Form: Rhyme
Hawaiian Pearl
Waters around the Arizona seethed,
burned with blood and oil
as Chaos gripped the Harbor.

Uncle Bud reeled about the deck.
His voice rising against the din:
“Abandon ship! ...

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© Jim Howe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandon ship, death, december, fire, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rms Titanic
Built by Harland and Wolff in the shipyard's of Belfast
A luxurious giant ship that they built to last
An Olympic class liner of the White Star...

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Categories: abandon ship, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Empress of Ireland
THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND

Two mighty workhorses, colliding Titans,
Leviathans of the Saint Lawrence river.
Devastation’s maritime wrecking balls,
Slamming head on, even after the warnings 
Sounding, had been...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandon ship, boat, death, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boommerbombillessentials14
I came to say, I cannot stay, I know I must be going, in the royal unreal realm 
of simple selfish self, shedding/shredding of the...

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Categories: abandon ship, kids, husband, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
Lost At Sea
The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought...

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Categories: abandon ship, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse
Ego, Games, and Misunderstanding
Ego Games, and Misunderstanding.
(The Death of A Friendship.)

Abandon ship and run away...
Abandon this and come away... 
Clean. Unscathed, or so you choose 
to perceive.
But believe,...

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Categories: abandon ship, friendshipme, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Clark Simmons
Since I was the oldest of three sisters with a mum, 
As my dad had died when I was at an age young,
I thought I’d...

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Categories: abandon ship, appreciation, conflict, death, hero,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Who Really Rules the World
When everyone wants peace,
but war is reality.
When love should conquer hate,
but they only retaliate.

Who really rules the world?
Who really rules the world?

When science has all...

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Categories: abandon ship, conflict, corruption, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs