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Best Cutlass Poems

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Cutlass Beach.
Sweeping time under the carpet
Is a time consuming chore,
Like spring cleaning
My consciousness
Upon a shingle shore,
Or picking up the seconds
Strewn along the cutlass beach,
Where the moments...

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Categories: cutlass, life, time, time, time,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: cutlass, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Silent Song
"A Silent Song"

Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Blessed or cursed
Morning shave
Coffee please
Write a verse
Remembers last night’s dream
Grabs a napkin, spills his spleen
Shoves it in his pocket
Walks...

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Categories: cutlass, imagery, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Romanticism
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: cutlass, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost Treasures
How did a decent lady like me end up here, anyway?
The only girl aboard a ship of unsavory men.
The last thing I remember was sipping...

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Categories: cutlass, adventure, fantasy, romantic, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dreams On the High Seas
Dreams On The High Seas

I dare reach my dreams on the high seas
Calm sea sweet is the night air
High tide with the heightening of the...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutlass, boat, dream, sea, universe,
Form: Free verse
Dry Season
Thick white clouds
Retracing posture
Atop the layers of earth;
Foggy shrouds of white
Overclouded landscape
Clogging the sunlight
In blurry unclearness.

In brown faded bushes
Lies inhalations of dryness,
Catchy like the gasoline
In...

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© Dowell Oba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutlass, nature, seasons
Form: Free verse
Car Court
CAR   COURT


Enter,   the older   heavyweight  steel  giant,
The bailiff,  a   1954 Hudson,  reads unhesitant...

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Categories: cutlass, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form: Verse
A Pirate Drinking Song
A Pirate Drinking Song

Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum
Pirates sing to the pipe and drum
North wind blows with a Gale's horn
Snapping the canvas with a...

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Categories: cutlass, drink, kids, hilarious, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The C Word
.

       Copper tone tan
   that contemptible soul

    not even my cutlass
her knowing its quickness
...

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Categories: cutlass, funny,
Form: Free verse
The Pirate Paradox
I dream to be a buccaneer out on a sailing ship
Purple parrot on my shoulder sharp cutlass on my hip.

Sailing upon the seven seas it's...

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Categories: cutlass, dark, deep, innocence, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bad Day On the High Seas - Repost
Ye dirty son of a sea dog
Ye rotten pile o' bones
Ye'll see the end o' me cutlass
I'll intrrroduce ye to Davey Jones

Ye'll not be getn...

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Categories: cutlass, humor, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
The Pirates of Sean Penn's Aunts
Penn's Aunts, patch-eyed women
Cutlass carried, pistol too
You mess with Sean,
They mess with you
Give his movie a bad review,
You'll walk the plank,
That's what they'll do....

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutlass, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Burlesque
Christmas Rebels (2).
But night’s bell came with tears and without love,
As our bamboo door talked,
“KNOCK! KNOCK!!”
Before my voice could speak,
Legs ruined down my door,
Then eyes in different...

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Categories: cutlass, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Th' Briny Whore
I'm a briny whore
wit' reekin' drawers
me honor ter make yer acquenchance
th' skipper's maid
me port's decayed
one doubloon, yer seafarin' urchin?

Yer scurvy rat
a-crawl wit' gnat
orf seadog scourged...

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Categories: cutlass, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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