Best Boaters Poems

...crystal blue waters twinkling away,
a thousand gems sparkle and sway,
fish jumping high with incredible joy,
a feeding frenzy and not being coy,
children skimming stones across
wanting to win an......

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...My love and I
Exchange kisses
Seated on a bank,
Under the shade of a nameless tree
For us.

Quiet surrounds us
And
We
Watch
Fishermen - two,
Casting,
And  we
Admire
An artist mix paint
......

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...AKULA

Mark and I caught the last plane from Ft. Lauderdale to New Orleans to escape Hurricane Andrew, leaving Akula ,our boat, tied up at Rolly Shipyard to face the wrath alone. The next few hell ......

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...Some people got off the Dumb Boat, and came to work one day. Honestly!
Birds were quietly sitting in a tree! Someone couldn't help himself, you see!
Shouting ‘Run they’re terror birds of prey!’ The......

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...Fearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise

When sleepily those embers to ash burn down
like ......

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...Why The Willow Weeps

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a beautiful park in a sunny valley.
In this park there were three Willow Trees. In those days the Willow was a proud tall tree,
......

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...Boat Ride


      Lead by unseen hand through watery forest,
      Drifting silently among sunken glades
      Where sun warmed breezes kiss rippled waters,
      'Tween quiet banks the living ......

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...What do the poor hang onto?
When all the trees are gone. 
When hearths are quaked to crumbs...
with nowhere to hide from the whirling gray eye of a storm.

In the afterbirth show boaters will ar......

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...Among the trees
Through the forest
High up on the mountain top
Situated for the world
To see is a lighthouse

It's a guide for boaters 
Finding their way home in the evening 
To awaiting love......

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...CRUISING ALONG THE SEA WAVES   © Tanka 

White sheets billow forth
Winds drive the sale boaters out
Through deeper crowned waves
Sea-tides ‘might’ held fast by reigns
 Not complying right or le......

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...Working as a NY cop on three alternating shifts,
his wife at home with five little kids,
ranging in ages from 1 to 12,
his police boat up and down on the swells,

One week he'd have normal 8-4pm......

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...Boat Ride II

      Upon the crowded deck, boaters go their way
      Drifting silently among sunken glades
      Where sun kissed ripples on sparkling waters play.

      'Tween quiet banks th......

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...Oh let me sing of the river's people
No, not holiday boaters, but those rare few
Whose homes and hearts embrace the river, 
Trafficking in all that she so blithely carries.
Backyards a port of en......

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...August 1969, the park, down by the lake
the summer afternoon draws to a close
laughing, screaming, splashing times, our own fun we would make
pure happiness, with torn and muddy clothes.
M.V Brit......

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...(hello! I'z bee'z day old Cap-pin Mike! this is my first poem I posted on heres!
I'z writes poem'z about my life on day ocean. just bee'z keepin in yaz head dat 
I'z very dis-sleck-sick and very ve......

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