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Best Deck Up Poems

Below are the all-time best Deck Up poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of deck up poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: deck up, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Mountain Church
Four friends and I, one Sunday, take a ride.
our church still closed just short of one full year.
We drive, white almond blooms on either side,
instead....

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Categories: deck up, day, devotion, nature, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bliss
Ignorance is definitely a description of bliss
Look at Washington if you don’t believe this
They are never on target, they always miss
Their biggest decision is whose...

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Categories: deck up, politicalold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dawn of My Heart
Ordinarily I lie in my bed
mentally grasping for any slender thread of slumber
which I can possibly find to cling to!
But there was one time -
a...

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Categories: deck up, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mountain Serenade
This oversized wooden chair feels oddly comfortable as we snuggle up on the raised deck of our cabin at the summit of an anonymous mountain...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deck up, nature, romantic love,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Pirate Bay
```Pirate Bay the Haiku``` 

pirates fierce and mean 
drowning fish, sea to sea 
parrots on their butt 


```Polly Wants A Cracker``` 

bloodthirst & brutal 
Quartermaster...

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Categories: deck up, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ode To the Redwood
I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...

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Categories: deck up, forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member In Midst of Life - Fragility of Dreams
A lovely night beneath the stars
   with ocean waves glazed by the moon;
nearby, the music of guitars
   strums soft, a melancholy...

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Categories: deck up, assonance, death,
Form: Quatrain
Dear Ex
Dear Ex,

I know you and I had our differences.
We were always finding new ways to say I loathe you.

It was my blameworthiness that allowed the...

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Categories: deck up, life, recovery from...rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beak To Beak
A tiny yellow bird, tiny beak,
Sits on a tiny branch
Of a big green tree,
Taps its feet, chirps, hops,
joyful, playful, circles around,
Lands on the deck post,
Agitated,...

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Categories: deck up, bird, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deck up, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: deck up, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: deck up, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deck up, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Breakers
Calm, cobalt seas beyond the waves beckon
Baby Boomer surfer responds
he stands upon his nicked, red board
placing his precious cargo on its deck

tired arms paddle to...

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Categories: deck up, farewell, sea,
Form: Free verse

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