Best All In The Same Boat Poems

Dirty Hands

My white hands are dirty
Even if I don’t realize
My burdens light like my skin
I haven’t had the same trials

The house I live in
my manicured life
The things I don’t have to think about
While oppressed brothers deal with strife

Stolen lives, blood sweat and tears
Things haven’t changed...

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We are all in the same boat
Just trying to stay afloat
Not drowning under the waves
That ripple and grow more each day
Life jackets can help us bounce
But something comes along to pounce
Dragging us down to the bottom
There's only so much we can fathom
Until we can't catch...

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clinging left or right
   we are all in the same boat
           taking on water


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My thoughts wander as I wonder what I'm running for. 
It's like I'm hunted cos I'm wanted for the chalk under juggernauts. 
Now I ponder what I'm running from.
I took shelter against an atomic bomb. 
I put distance between us like boggy swamps.
And worked resistance...

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I noticed that the grass was always greener on the other side, as I made my way to the 18th hole and practiced my drive.

As I zip lined across with the greatest of ease, I finally noticed for the first time the forest for the...

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Both feet on the floor, 
Its’ 6am and once again I’m rushing out my door. 
Dressed in a hurry, showered and shaved,
My mind is cloudy, its’ still in a haze.
I rub the crust from the corners of my eyes 
Trying to shake off the stupor...

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"YOU I Want To See"


If you did walk on water and actually stayed afloat!
If you did take every creature on earth
and put them all in the same boat!
If YOU did part the waters of the Red Sea evenly, then 
YOU are the One I'd like...

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My boat


A small boat moving through choppy water.

Prompt from "Grief" by Raymond Carver 


Some sail in yachts
Some relax on cruise ships
Some transport fruit on cargo ships 
Some are fishing in trawlers
Some refugees seek asylum
Some toil with nuclear reactors
Some wear military uniforms
Some honeymoon in new lands.

A...

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So young and newly married
Hanging on by the thread of love
Sometimes though in life we see
That thread isn't wound tight enough

Through the daily struggles
Most of them unseen
What happened to the newlywed
Where went all the dreams

Holding on
Barely holding on...

A father and husband out of work
A family...

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The summer brings out a multitude of things
   from blossoming trees to colourful flowers
       onto music festivals,glastonbury showers
         standing soaking dancing, but that all brings

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I love Southwest Florida and I feel privileged to live here in Paradise.  One of the 
things I enjoy most about living here is being able to walk year round in beautiful 
parks and nature preserves.  One of my favorite places is Eco...

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these words may only be debris. 
blown by the malstrom of my mind. 
empty metaphors carried on the sea of obscurity. 
fishing for fragile sentences to explain the thunder and the rain. 
but are we not all in the same boat, 
trying to scrape the...

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THE TRAGEDY OF SONG

She sings in such hushed vocal tones one second, 
then she shatters glass in an attack of tragic beauty the next.
The truths and traumas of life seem so real and painful when her voice glides over them,
after all, isn’t this the life...

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Don’t you worry dear friend,
You can apply for a leave,
The ERP supports that to the end,
In fact that’s what HR believes;

Casual, On-Duty or Vacation,
No you can’t combine them all,
Three days maximum for any occasion,
Next day; attend your duty call;

You get twelve days General Holidays,
And two...

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In this time of quarantine,
One does not know 
Whether you are being forgotten
Or you’re suffering all alone.

You miss going outside,
To Escape from your worries.
You miss seeing your classmates,
That cheered and entertained you daily.
You miss shopping at large stores,
splurging and rewarding yourself.
You miss visiting restaurants,
An opportunity...

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