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Best Dry Land Poems

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Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: dry land, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative



Play Rain
Play rain , play melancholic tunes
Play closely to my ear, I need to hear

I want to listen to Sinatra's toe-tap sounds
As you fall, fall slowly...

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Categories: dry land, childhood, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Mermaid's Lesson
A merman had one stubborn daughter

who rebelled against what her dad taught her.

When she swam to dry land,

she could then understand

she was just like a...

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Categories: dry land, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Fishermans Brush With Death - Sea Shanty
One fine day I was fishing at sea
Two big blue whales swam up by me
They flicked their tails sent up a spray
All I could do...

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Categories: dry land, boat, fishing, water,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member When Things Returned To Green
The ruination of the mighty earth
Was started when explosions rocked the sky.
Ten years of darkness followed. . . then a heat,
And that is when the...

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Categories: dry land, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain



To the Temptations
If you can make the gray sky bluer,
or make it rain whenever you want it to.
Can you build a castle from a single grain of...

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Categories: dry land, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Little Man
Be not forgotten faith that bids me stay
When darkened hours come bringing heavy rain
Flood waters ominous rising delays 
Foreboding storm cease or I'll go insane
In...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dry land, child, christian, confidence, conflict,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sully
At New Yorks laGuardia airport passengers stood in line
Waiting to board U.S.airways, flight one five four nine
Chesley Sullenberger was the captain and Jeff Skiles the...

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Categories: dry land, america, boat, courage, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member YOU CANt ESCAPE THE WEATHER

With accompaniment of rain, the tweets pour into my ear.
Saturation of sound, mottled bark and sodden moss.
Must be the downfall of civilization, heavens tears.
In God’s...

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Categories: dry land, imagery, senses, sin, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 1
“The Swoon Hypothesis”  - Part 1

“Come, take my hand”, you say, “I will show you a story”.
So, I place my hand in yours, we...

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Categories: dry land, imagery, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Irony Abounds
On an unsinkable ship’s maiden voyage, it sinks.
A pastor who preaches against alcohol, drinks.
One’s surrounded by people, yet remains all alone.
Confessing sins to a priest,...

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Categories: dry land, humor, irony, sad, drug,
Form: Ballade
Free Spirit
She rides along the waves
so happy and carefree
Daring to take chances
with an open endless sea
She has no heavy anchor
to always hold her down
She floats atop...

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© Alana Tye  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dry land, happiness, life, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Mermaid Fantasy
Out on the ocean
A lonely fisherman cries
He's unable to find true love
No matter how hard he tries.

So many failures 
In his life there have been
To...

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Categories: dry land, fantasy, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not Quite Noah's Ark - Elements Part 3 Water
Noah heard the forecast and realised he must build an ark
It had to be impermeable for when they finally disembark.

They faced forty days and forty...

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Categories: dry land, bible, fun, humorous, rain,
Form: Couplet
The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the...

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Categories: dry land, bible, death, earth, god,
Form: Didactic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things