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Best All In The Same Boat Poems


Premium Member Dirty Hands
...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 th......

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Categories: all in the same boat, angst, conflict, courage, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Drowning In the Sea of Life
...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 ......

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Categories: all in the same boat, fear, life, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deeply Divisible Truth
...clinging left or right
   we are all in the same boat
           taking on water


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Categories: all in the same boat, conflict, environment, society,
Form: Senryu

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Anomaly
...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 bom......

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Categories: all in the same boat, rap,
Form: Rhyme
My Idiom Oneliners Part 2
...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 ......

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Categories: all in the same boat, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Working Dead
...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......

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Categories: all in the same boat, anxiety, career, conflict, funny,
Form: Rhyme



You I Want To See
..."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 e......

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Categories: all in the same boat, desire, words,
Form: Rhyme
My Boat
...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 
Som......

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Categories: all in the same boat, boat, sea,
Form: Free verse
Holding On, Barely Holding On
...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 ......

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Categories: all in the same boat, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Summer Festivals
...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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Categories: all in the same boat, musicmusic, music,
Form: Rhyme
Essay: Prelude To Women Walking Part 1 of 2
...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......

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Categories: all in the same boat, family, inspirational, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Searching
...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 w......

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Categories: all in the same boat, change, conflict, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Tragedy of Song
...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......

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Categories: all in the same boat, irony, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Erp
...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 da......

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Categories: all in the same boat, absence, anxiety, computer, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Never Alone
...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 classma......

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Categories: all in the same boat, 11th grade, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry