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Best Brig Poems

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Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
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Categories: brig, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Thirteen Thousand Miles - Spanish Septet
It’s thirteen thousand miles from Boston to
San Diego around  far Cape Horn’s way.
Ship needs to sail to that distant quay.
The Cape is a hard...

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Categories: brig, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains...

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Categories: brig, africa, america, history, racism,
Form: Verse
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...

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Categories: brig, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic
The Helicopter Flight
One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the...

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© James Rudd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brig, adventurebody, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Awa' Aff the River Shore
Awa' oan the Firth of Forth, 
high oan the famous brig', 
a laboring lad toils tirelessly 
in the cauld and bitter wind.

Awa' aff the river...

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Categories: brig, love, places, song-river,
Form: Lyric
Know Justice, Know Piece
"Have you called Brigit yet?" A friend to bawl and 
Here she is, in times or tales of plight and fight, 
peace and flight.
One year...

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Categories: brig, adventure, animal, brother, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Country of Texas
Hear tell the state of Texas is freaking big
Almost the size of Canada, holy frig
Why not form your own country
Have your own funny money
With The...

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Categories: brig, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Someone Was Telling Huge Porkie Pies
Peter purchased a cute 'micro pig'
Over time it grew ever so big!
It cannot be denied
That the seller had lied
If he’s caught he’ll end up in...

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Categories: brig, animal, humorous, pets, ,
Form: Limerick
Humility In the Ocean of Humanity
Top of the world news has not really been good news examples are MH 370 (Malaysia missing Plane) and Nigeria’s missing girls. 

BRIG BACK OUR...

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Categories: brig, africa, missing,
Form: Free verse
Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship
Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands
Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand.

The ship originally...

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Categories: brig, history,
Form: Couplet
The Mermaid
While sailing out on morning’s tide
A mermaid on a rock I spied
She was a lovely half-fish girl
With a necklace made of whitest pearl

She smiled and...

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Categories: brig, fantasy, funny, happinessfriend, me,
Form: Rhyme
Junk - Jobless Jack
Jobless Jack, a real jerk, dances a jig,
He juggles, smuggles jewels in backpacks,
jawbreakers, jump ropes, jelly rolls and crack.
~~Jig be up,  Jack'll  jiggle...

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Categories: brig, 11th grade, drug, jobs,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Not Squared Away
Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right 
               ...

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Categories: brig, devotion, humor, military,
Form: Narrative
Big Politician
Big Politician

Chris Christie
Not known to be nifty
Warned New Jersey National Guard Brig. Gen. Michael Cunniff to slim down.
This from such a big clown....

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Categories: brig, corruption, political,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Shattered Sighs