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Best Barge In Poems


Barge Reef
Barge Reef 

Barge Reef lies isolated at worlds end by chance
Wedges of sharp rocks fill in what ocean can’t

Eighty foot waters roll at a distance out
Waves say hello on cresting white

Coral formed and bleached silent
Created from living life forms 
On the wrong side of the...

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Categories: barge in, adventure, beauty, creation, image,
Form: Free verse
Hollow Barge-A Requiem and Other Poems
Hollow barge
A requiem.

Fire inside
Volcano.

White wolves
red snow.

Mountain
Swirling wind.

Fish
Vigilance.


A hen
call.


A girl
Wild fire.

Crow
Black astronaut.


Lizard on wall
Waiting.

Mosquito
blacklisted flautist.

Frogs
Deep sleep.


Five white roses
Touch.


Rock
A hermit....

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Categories: barge in, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun,
Form: Footle
On This Life's Sorrowful Barge I Doth Float
On this 
Life’s sorrowful 
barge I doth float 

Much too 
much a traveler 
Alas too far 
remote 
from any 
hearing and 
caring Being 

Caining 
me not 

Hamming distance
in the 
afterworld...

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Categories: barge in, son, song-lyric
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member In Praise of Barge Workers
Wind sweeps down the side of the mountain
Crosses tracks and flings itself across the river,
First slapping against the sides of the tugboats
Causing the deckhands to shiver and curse
As they check the lashing between the barges,
Several days before they reach the sun
And longer still before arriving...

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Categories: barge in, boat, death, river, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mallaise
Four young men and quite large
Are cruising the mall like a barge.
But I, diddle, diddle,
Fit as a fiddle, 
Aim my cane at the middle and charge!...

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Categories: barge in, age, anti bullying, youth,
Form: Limerick
Outside My Office Window
Outside my office window, is a field with a canal running through it,
Today people have turned up with diggers and dumper trucks and are digging the field up bit by little bit.

Oftern barges slowly and gently go with the flow and casually moor there,
But now...

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Categories: barge in, business, river, vacation, water,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Whale of Words
One Matthew McGregory Hale
Was thought to resemble a whale.
I don't mean so large,
Nor shaped like a barge,
But spouting out words like a gale....

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Categories: barge in, analogy, animal, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick

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