Best Docked Poems
A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
...My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent poem on your page ‘DIG DEEP’.
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Categories:
docked, humor, rap, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
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 with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met a Silhouette behind......
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Categories:
docked, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
The Old Rusty Gate
...
I wished to ascend,
so I called a friend,
who knew of such things
and how to grow wings.
‘God’s abode’s within’,
he said, ‘so begin,
by simply choosing,
head and heart, fusing’......
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Categories:
docked, dream, god, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
It Reads Like a Rap
...Your rhyme reads like a rap they say,
a rap I say,
a rap they say,
perhaps but rap is rhyme you see,
it's rhyme really,
it's rhyme you see,
this poem is not lyrical,
no not at all,
not lyrica......
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Categories:
docked, hip hop, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Pinnacle
...I stood, as if buoyed up, atop a crag,
unchanged (yet somehow changed), not knowing why
my mountain-climbing friends could so much lag,
for I was where the pinnacle met sky,
but they were......
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Categories:
docked, body,
Form:
Sonnet
The Perfect Ending
...When fate’s hands joined together, pounding seas
A monstrous storm placed fishing boats at risk
I called to Billy, “Captain, listen please,
Turn ‘round, the seas are high and wind too brisk”
......
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Categories:
docked, nature, sea,
Form:
Sonnet
dichotomy -
...
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweeth......
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Categories:
docked, analogy, break up, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Diets
...Can you imagine my surprise
When I woke up with thunder thighs
I looked in my mirror and
It gave me back a knowing grin
Hard and heavy the diet days
And all of my sweet tooth chocolate crav......
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Categories:
docked, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Taking Away the Loneliness
...Oceans of loneliness forgiven
petrichor slowly dances away
a strawberry kiss commencement
in deepest recesses of my mind
just linger
with desserts of pleasure
wrapped around
th......
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Categories:
docked, loneliness, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sweetest of Moans, From Her Desirous Lips
...This My Heart Cries Out, Is But A Sad Song
I shall drinketh not of Life's poison draught
Nor when famished, yield to its pleading thirst
Of Hope, goodness in Life, I was this taught
What ego so......
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Categories:
docked, appreciation, art, creation, deep,
Form:
Sonnet
Attracco
...the sailing boats sit by the shore,
anchored there, they stay a while.
hours, days, or weeks ahead,
they'll sail soon, not fore'er idle.
the sailing boats sit for a time
until the drivers read......
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Categories:
docked, imagination, introspection, life, freedom,
Form:
Film Noir
...Film Noir
By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckone......
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Categories:
docked, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Once a Seafarer
...Once a Seafarer
I was thinking of my life as a seafarer endless
voyaging like a gipsy of the seas.
It was the best of times because I was young
but was also the worst of times being without
a w......
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Categories:
docked, abortion, computer, corruption, courage,
Form:
Sonnet
Red Sky At Night
...The Rivers Current
Flows in this Mind
Visions Drifting
Propelled to the Waters Edge
Pockets of Wind
Lead them to Their Port
Docked
I can only watch
Binoculars give a close view
Their C......
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Categories:
docked, conflict, confusion, destiny, hate,
Form:
Concrete
Seven Ships Sailed To Salem
...Seven ships sailed south to Salem
Sacks of spices sweet sacks of salt
Riding wave’s ridges roughly
Roughly riding seas to south
Blue shallows secrets silent secluded traps
With coral teeth and......
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Categories:
docked, ocean, old, voyage,
Form:
Alliteration