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Best Boating Poems

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Luncheon of the Boating Party
(Re old poems)



The luncheon of French bourgeoisie under frilly striped awning.
Young fair maiden, rosy cheeks- beguiling her eyes; leans on the railing.
Amidst fruits and undrunk...

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Categories: boating, art, beauty, boat, people,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Ludix-Rym -Five Decades An Adult
My first ten years (or childhood), I'd say were pretty great.
although my confidence could easily deflate.
To be a teen - For this I could not...

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Categories: boating, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living It Up In the Eighties
Learned to drive in 1980; it became a must.
The car I bought soon broke down; “Another One Bites the Dust!”

With two kids by ‘81 -...

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Categories: boating, family, growing up, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member West Is the Best
California
Sunny, warm 
Swimming, boating, sunning
Sky, airplane, ocean, seashells
Skiing, sledding, snowball throwing
Cold, blistery
New York City...

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Categories: boating, beach, nature, new york,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member I Think I Know Why the Ocean Flows
The view from our cruise ship 
Conjures far-flung images of amber hues
A fusion of illusion and reality 
Where bending arc of the horizon
Greets the magnificent...

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Categories: boating, love, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Silver Ship To Heaven- Loss of Family Member


Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no...

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Categories: boating, death, emotions, family, heaven,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Family Camp
It was a special time of life
With my children and my wife
In a tent among the trees
At a place called Camp Louise

Sitting around a campfire...

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Categories: boating, family, life, places, old,
Form: Narrative
Glitz
The whittled worries and fears shred my nerves like ants on glass, sparkling red. I notice and bow to the glitterati in their fine silks...

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Categories: boating, allusion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Befuddled Brenda
Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography,
Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea,
Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain,
Broadsided by fiction now baking insane;

Balanced between both broken and brilliant,
Buried by...

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Categories: boating, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Alliteration
Holes In My Shoes
A Mountain forever
stands over me,
holding a treasure
she wont set free

Deep in her heart
beats a flame,
the organ of life
pumps into veins

Boating the breeze
blowing through caves,
passing the...

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Categories: boating, on writing and wordspoets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Few Things
Just a few things that I do hunger for 

When the sun... bakes 
When the snow... flakes 
Scenic... breath takes 
I just adore 

Vanilla... milkshakes...

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Categories: boating, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member So Are You
Like a rose in the shade of a tree,
So are you as you stand beside me;
You are lovely and breathe purity:
I your shade and protection...

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Categories: boating, assonance, muse, people, simile,
Form: Rhyme
Water's Life, and Seems Alive
Waves on the rocks 
a'crashing
In it human feet go 
splashing
And elsewhere in the 
swollen river
'gator tails go thrashing
Water may be stagnant 
or it may be...

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Categories: boating, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light
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At peace perhaps too much
a fine Spring rain
we seek news from the desert or capitol
of those who have dedicated their lives to losing their lives...

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Categories: boating, adventure, family, god, happy,
Form: Verse
Tropical Topical
Taming a tropical topical tree? Taking a trunk? Telling a tailor? Traversing a tale? Many ideas. Much like the ideological dramas of a beach front....

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Categories: boating, absence, allah, angel, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs