Best Canoes Poems
Weep O Willows...Sigh you wind whispering willows
Green sentinels of the ocean blue
Her feet edge no more the billows
Where canoes dock and salt sprays spew
Sigh for the loss of responsiblity
Sigh for the death ......
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Categories:
canoes, death
Form:
Verse
Heart's Slumber...I'm a sinister shell,
lost in bygone
deepwaters of
gravity-less
cerulean tears,
that saturate
molten sundrops,
falling from
zinc-plated skies,
as heliophilic snow,
melts frosted
m......
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Categories:
canoes, angst, deep, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
I breathe life...
Dear me,
I breathe you
in the pulse of erased promises ~
I'm a shadow in your space
and not any voice which can be heard
above restless mists,
so, when the crystals of change mo......
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Categories:
canoes, deep, emotions, faith, life,
Form:
Free verse
Day Dreaming...the red glow so far away
so close, embraced
the burst of innervated dawn
restraining its awe
the uplift of a lemony-spring
sponge-squeezed from the sudsy sun
the faucet of quiet waters turned......
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Categories:
canoes, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Randomlings 1-34...Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen......
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Categories:
canoes, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form:
Verse
The Island...My island slept for years in the care
Of Tainos, Caribs and Arawak
Their canoes on the sea breast bare
Dreaming of milk from manioc
The swamps unscarred, trees secure
Batos and songs rinsed in t......
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Categories:
canoes, places
Form:
Verse
Der Sepik Fluss / the Sepik River...Endlos und überwachsend, der Urwald,
immergrün,
über dem dunklen Wasser,
Krokodile im Abendlicht,
tauchen auf
und verschwinden am Ufer.
Nebel,
der wie ein zartes Gespinst über dem Wasser l......
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Categories:
canoes, nature
Form:
Verse
Chief Roaring Eagle...He sits Alone, In the rising sun ; or is it a setting Moon?
With a birch bark Flute, a sadden Heart plays a very lonely tune
Go north, then west, says Chief Roaring Eagle, I’ll be with You soon
......
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Categories:
canoes, family, hope, life, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Children of An Angry Father...When primeval men were made,
Someone said they were perfect,
But I ask them how plausibly so
Can perfection beget imperfection?
They laughed and I laughed in return.
Some others said they became......
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Categories:
canoes, anger, children, courage, father,
Form:
I Would Be---Wood..."I Would Be....WOOD"
"Knock On Me!" or more correct "Knock On WOOD!" You've probably said that and rapped your knuckles against me while saying it! I know you've knocked on me many times in y......
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Categories:
canoes, image, writing,
Form:
Personification
No Man's Islands...Like cold marble statues
stiff as vague mixtures
of alcohol that stings of spirits,
cheap as famished souls.
Once were unique and proud,
now the vanishing isles!
A struggle to keep adrift
t......
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Categories:
canoes, abuse, environment, philosophy, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Pearl of the Orient...Seven thousand islands grace the shore
as narra trees arise , sun -dressed
with ripples humming a native folksong--
gracious the womenfolk, caressed
by Philippine beaches ever idyllic--
......
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Categories:
canoes, environment, home, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
I Miss Talking To You...It's been awhile
I miss you my dear friend
How are you?
Do you still laugh with your heart?
Do you still play that game??
Maybe not, maybe yes
I don't know
We haven't talked for aw......
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Categories:
canoes, absence, friendship, missing,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 25...Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, sku......
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Categories:
canoes, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Scouters...Give them clear mountain lakes,
And kid-friendly swimming holes,
Rafts, rowboats, and canoes;
Dads and sons with fishing poles.
Give them clear night skies,
Filled with jus......
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Categories:
canoes, nature, song, spiritual, stars,
Form:
Lyric