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Best Fishermen Poems

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Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: fishermen, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative



Weep O Willows
Sigh you wind whispering willows
Green sentinels of the ocean blue
Her feet edge no more the billows
Where canoes dock and salt sprays spew
Sigh for the loss...

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Categories: fishermen, death
Form: Verse
Premium Member Gods At the Comedy Club
The house was full
Of Gods and deities
The curtain call was soon
The water vasos were poured
And became the finest of wines
The bread multiplied
The baker you see
Was...

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Categories: fishermen, art, butterfly, gothic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Companions
Tiny boardwalk along the Halifax River
Waiting to see what “catch” nature will deliver

Royal Palms’ fronds rustle in fall’s gentle breeze
No noisy distractions from teens on...

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Categories: fishermen, bird, fishing, nature,
Form: Couplet
Where the Woods Open
There's a path I always take
down to the river where the woods
are dressed down open
The light of the sky
doesn't shine in your eyes
but leads the...

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Categories: fishermen, autumn, imagery, inspirational, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winds of Change
For forty days and nights, a tempest strange
blew in; the lost unsaved by fortresses.
One shelter only from those winds of change:
an ark that sailed to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fishermen, god, jesus, sea, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Plesiosaurus Lives
I’m Peter the Plesiosaurus
My clan sings like whales in a chorus
     My flippers and gills
     Can give...

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Categories: fishermen, animals, mystery
Form: Limerick
Sunset On Galway Bay (Haiku No. 34)
Explosion of light
Pooled the bay with reds and gold
Catching fishermen....

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Categories: fishermen, inspirational
Form: Haiku
3 Haiku
In January 2007 the fishing trawler, 'Pere Charles'was lost off Dunmore East. Co Waterford, 
Ireland, with the loss of five fishermen. I knew four of...

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Categories: fishermen, naturewater, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Forgotten Tide
The busy Moon forgot about the Tide.
She left it out all day upon the sand.
And when it found itself alone topside,
there mischief was immediately at...

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Categories: fishermen, beach, children, freedom, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swamp Life: Human Nature Contest
Swamps are like places where dinosaurs roam  
shadowed by ancient moss-draped trees.        
A prehistoric world in shades...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fishermen, life, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Old Masks
They never change
These vassals of venom
If only their cups could hold love
Instead of water
Then gardens could bloom in valleys and deserts
As the seeds of love...

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Categories: fishermen, art, bible, cancer, dark,
Form: Free verse
Herring Run At Cape Cod Canal
I could not paint a better picture,
Than the one in front of me,
Of twists and turns of the canal,
Bordered by endless trees.

A warm day with...

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Categories: fishermen, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Beloved Jesus Is Alive
Born into this world as a humble, helpless Babe
Christ increased in wisdom and stature
Grew up in favour with both God and man

Baptised publicly by John...

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Categories: fishermen, easter, gospel, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sea Shore
sparkling  dancing sea waves touch the shore with flowing magic
of cobalt blue filaments that reflect the sky   above
oh  endless the huge...

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Categories: fishermen, sea,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs