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Best Drop Anchor Poems

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Premium Member Where I Want To Go
I'd love to buy a boat and sail the seas
Just loaf and let the string of life unwind
Drop anchor anytime or place I please
To visit...

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Categories: drop anchor, adventure, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Sonnet



The Hollow
I am the hope inside
 That feeds on tide and wind
 As ocean shores abide
 A storm's subsiding din 

 I am the joy that...

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Categories: drop anchor, mythology, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Fishin'
I troll downstream; drop anchor and wait
To seize the day with just the right bait
I feel my first hit, a pulse one can’t see
Though anxious,...

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Categories: drop anchor, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Epistle To Barack Obama
this epistle per mine choice of heir apparent presidential throne
composed from one liberal minded non-conformist rolling stone  

prompted awareness that one voice can affect...

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Categories: drop anchor, dedication, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Yo-Ho-Ho and Shiver Me Timbers
Yo-Ho-Ho And Shiver Me Timbers

Shiver me timbers and loosen me limbers
I sail me sloop until it lin’ers
And drop anchor in t’  nearest lagoon
Bury me...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop anchor, boat, imagery, travel,
Form: Free verse



Sail Away With Me
Well and I know these lakes like
The back of my hand
I used to like to be on the open
Waters alone the serenity made me
Feel strong...

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© Bo Lanier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop anchor, boyfriend, water, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abalone Bed
The channel islands off the coast
of California were my home
on weekends sailing with my dad
on glassy seas, on froth and foam.

On Fridays after work he’d...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop anchor, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
 ...

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Categories: drop anchor, analogy, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Ocean Dream
from the sandy bottom
up periscopes 
from depths,
hidden in the sea 
of thoughts,
through an ocean 
of memories

scanning the distant horizon,
in vision 
my rising sun
as my waters...

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Categories: drop anchor, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
The Lake
(after Alphonse de Lamartine)

Thus, ever driven onward to new shores, borne constantly away, 
Can we never, in the Ocean of the Ages, drop anchor for...

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Categories: drop anchor, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
 ...

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Categories: drop anchor, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Laura Lee's Funeral
Laura Lee's Funeral

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Categories: drop anchor, absence, allegory, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
The Asphalt Sea
I bought an RV , that's where I'm living these days..
Living and learning all the RVing ways.
When I awoke this morning it was raining 'round...

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Categories: drop anchor, happiness, poetry, travel,
Form: Rhyme
God On Earth
What better place than here
to be 

To stop drop anchor and rest aboard
my floating throne and dotted
upon by endless servants
feeding me grapes of wrath

And take...

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Categories: drop anchor, slam,
Form: Free verse
In Balance
The world is always in balance
Harmony is created again and again
Disguised in the madness 
Tucked under this sadness
Peeling at the corners, twirling mad with the...

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Categories: drop anchor, hope
Form: Free verse

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