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Best Cannon Ball Poems

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Touched By An Angel
Do you remember how it felt to open the perfect gift on Christmas Day?
Reminisce on the sparkle in your eyes when you didn't have a...

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Categories: cannon ball, passion, romanceme, world, me,
Form: Rhyme



Shiver Me Timbers
SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And...

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Categories: cannon ball, humor,
Form: Limerick
We Are the Victors I'M Back
I’d like too invite all to be my guest
a dine of mindfulness and rhyme digest 
a week of conflict now victory blessed 
standing united to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cannon ball, celebration,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Spoke To a Cloud
Spoke to a cloud today – 
the usual conversation
about shape and size, 

lows and highs...whether
my need to tote a handy, spring
loaded umbrella...or a better chance
to...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cannon ball, humanity, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Young Men Jumping Into the Ocean Blue- -
Seven Young Men Jumping into the Ocean Blue- -

Cliff notes seven of us jumping out,
Over the pier cannon ball falls. 

4/29/19
Written words by James Edward...

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Categories: cannon ball, adventure, analogy, confidence, endurance,
Form: Crystalline



Stand and Deliver
Shot out like a cannon ball
As mother lay there in her bed
Twisted and contorted 
Push down hard the nurse had said
Audience at bottom end
Were quick...

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Categories: cannon ball, baby, birth, fun, miracle,
Form: Quatrain
Fireworks
Fireworks!

Lights sparkling
Ruby delight
Fizzing, whizzing
Glistening night

Bright diamonds
Golden rain
Blasting, rasping 
Again and again

Rays flashing 
Shattered drops
Dashing, splashing
Cannon ball shots

Wild explosions 
Busting high 
Booming, zooming
Bejewelled sky 

 Folks...

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Categories: cannon ball, celebration, firework, november,
Form: Rhyme
I Roll Bowl, Lawns I Know, Anti-Pestcontrol -Last Piece To Goblin Girl Trilogy
Breeders' Cannon Ball plays for days and decades even onto eras
Feeders on the bottom plus top down voodoo economics, no trickle
De-weeders? Why? Lawns are hype...

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Categories: cannon ball, absence, abuse, age, allah,
Form: Personification
The Man That He Once Was, Part I
In better times, Anders Throne once was
a good husband and loving father,
married to his sweetheart, Rosie Smith,
who’d grown on the Chesapeake waters.

He worked as a...

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Categories: cannon ball, anger, character, faith, hurt,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Ballad of Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway was a pirate
He sailed the Spanish Main
He plundered British merchant ships
And the Galleons of Spain

Once he was a farmer
He walked behind the plough
But...

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Categories: cannon ball, adventure, courage, leadership, war,
Form: Ballad
A Mothers Grief, Rage and Quest
Rage, despair, grief, devastation and regret, flowing like 
hot lava spewing out from a volcano through my veins,
pushing out my red hot blood onto this...

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Categories: cannon ball, anger, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Where the Bullsh1t Lies
Where the Bull **** Lies


  Slipping through the cracks as every seam starts to unfold,
      feel the weight of...

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Categories: cannon ball, dark, deep, hyperbole, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Broken In Love
I know
Even if I have no evidence to prove it
I know
That I was never meant to be in this world!
I find not my place here
I...

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Categories: cannon ball, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Tie Me Down
Tie Me Down by Rob Barratt

Tie me down, tether me to a pole
Rope together the wings on my soul

Fill my wellies up with rocks
Put big...

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Categories: cannon ball, loveme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1
The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front...

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Categories: cannon ball, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs