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Best Boilers Poems

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Matchstick Bikes
Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man...

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Categories: boilers, society,
Form: Rhyme



The Witchtrain
The night of the living dead is coming…
Take heed and lock your doors
The witch trains blow the whistles
As they leave the devils jaws.

He strikes the...

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Categories: boilers, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
A Chickens Story
Sunshine and stormy weather,
From egg,to feather,

Grains until I am matured,
Off to the boilers for sure,
Cluck,cluck,cluck no more,
Chopped or bi-sect in four,

Leg,wing and thigh,
Jerk,bar-b-que or fry,

Brown...

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Categories: boilers, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Recollections From the Golden Cree Iii
Brackish-gurgling days that
Unobtrusively slid along
Past tussock grass and curled up 
Balls of Fern...
Glued tightly onto structured vanes
Of outstretched frond.
Venerable Mosses reciting epic tales,
Measured throughout Metronomical...

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Categories: boilers, growing up, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cruise Cat Tastrophy
Cicely Catherine Charlotte,
Child of a cosmopolitan century,
Captain of the cruise vessel
Cooling its boilers in the cove.

Cicely dispensing catnip
creates crazy feline
cuckoo climbing, jumping with
crack me up...

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Categories: boilers, animal, boat, cat, fun,
Form: Alliteration



Cat History In Eight Stanzas
Tom said to his kitten: Don't hunt! It's hard work!
Leave hunting to others and don't be a burk
Watch me and heed me and later admire
We'll...

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Categories: boilers, animal, cat, fun, funny,
Form: Verse
On a Slow Boat To Nowhere
amidst the thunder and the thuds
of boilers and blocks panting evermore
in a halcyon sea, the territorial gulls
shriek their high-pitched sadness as they soar.

and all throughout...

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Categories: boilers, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Debris
Debris 
There was a time when I was a seaman travelled with 
a cardboard suitcase and my best shoes wrapped in newspaper.
  I always...

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Categories: boilers, allegory, appreciation, assonance, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
Ein Reich Ein Volk
they snorted and toiled
the sound of swords being hammered
the vanquished lay screaming
a tale of rank deception
with a maniac for the wind
and damnation in the boilers
trailing...

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Categories: boilers, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walton's Scrapyard
Walton’s Scrapyard

Mr Walton was our local scrap man
He wore a great big hat
His yard was squeezed between 
Two terraced houses
And I was always amazed at...

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Categories: boilers, adventure, childhood, children, funny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Queen of the Ocean, Titanic
Let me tell you a story . . . 

The RMS Titanic steamship was the largest 
and most magnificent ship in the world (at the...

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Categories: boilers, history,
Form: Narrative
For Adrienne Rich
Do I trespass if I knock at your door
Would you be frightened to see I also have a full cup
And call the cop because I...

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Categories: boilers, art, dedication, on writing
Form: Free verse
Unification Understanding Undergrowth Underwater Uniquely Underwent Unselfishly Unified
Funnily it is the shame of sham that shampoo runs away down a drain. Oh dear. What an absolute disaster for the many supporting bottles...

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Categories: boilers, anniversary,
Form: I do not know?
Albert's Family's Eulogy
We’d just buried poor old Peter and we’re back now at his wake,
and of course it’s sad to see him gone but it’s great we...

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Categories: boilers, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Is the End Near
IS THE END NEAR?

This civilization resourceful and strong, disrupt and destroy as they go along
Scientist’s try very hard to get by, hysteria still brings a...

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Categories: boilers, life
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things