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Best Freighter Poems

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Alligator Tale
An alligator on a floating freighter
Ate the Captain and the navigator,
He also ate the crew 
In a meaty stew,
In a feast which included the waiter....

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Categories: freighter, children, funny,
Form: Limerick



Mindless Thinking
Took a cruise down a river of booze.
Pissed my pants and filled my shoes.
Now it's time to clean it up.
Take a shower and drink a...

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Categories: freighter, sometimes,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Part I-The Escape of a Rooster Named Harbor
A handsome rooster with red-breasted feathers, soft and lustrous,
and a head covered with golden plumage,
was too unhappy to sing about his age,
so he embarked on...

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Categories: freighter, adventure, depression, hope, nostalgia,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Freighter's Foghorn On Mackinac Island
Awoken at 3:30 a.m.
On Mackinac Island at the Grand Hotel
By a freighter blowing its foghorn
Like a calf half separated
From its mother

Bellowing out there somewhere
Lost and...

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Categories: freighter, boat, children, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
Blockage of the Suez Canal
More than fifty ships go through the Suez Canal on any day.
However, a very large freighter has blocked the passageway.
The ship called the "Ever Given"...

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Categories: freighter, business, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Part Ii-The Escape of a Rooster Named Harbor
When the well-rested rooster woke up at noon, he found himself in the lap
of a gorgeous boy and he was telling his mom with urgency,
"I...

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Categories: freighter, family, children, friendship, funny,
Form: Quatrain
The History of Scituate Light
Below this dome
The earthy place 
Lies a stone lighthouse 
Sturdy standing in place
Across the waters it does face 
Brought to birth at 1810
 
She’s been...

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Categories: freighter, history, nature, places, war,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Letter
The Letter         

A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man,...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: freighter, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Secret
He walks around with a secret untold
Its taken his peace, and life begins to unfold.
No one understands the pain he has to bare.
Now everything tastes...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: freighter, hope, life, loss, life,
Form: Rhyme
Inwards
Inwards
Admiral Nukhimov lies in the usual position, on her side, on the seabed with sixty four bodies still aboard. Hit by a freighter Pyotr Vasev...

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Categories: freighter, conflict, death, history, war,
Form: Verse
The Ship Wreck
The ship Wreck 
A sparkle, the freighter exploded and up in the air I flew. Looking down the ship 
had vanished in the glitter of...

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Categories: freighter, adventureme, women, sea, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Mystery of the Ss Ourang Medan
In 1947 in the Straits of Malacca near Indonesia
An old Dutch freighter the  SS Ourang Medan 
Sent a message out that the whole crew...

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Categories: freighter, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Writin' Vern'N Jonji Home
Watching little crabs scuttle out of holes building fences of round wet sand bricks.

A long necked long legged white crested round eyed sentinel watches a...

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Categories: freighter, places,
Form: Blank verse
Watercolour Picture
WATERCOLOUR  PICTURE


Strolling slowly in  tree  pergolas
Golden  roofs  and  sunlit cupolas

Caress  of evening breeze warm
Fountains  with  their...

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Categories: freighter, city,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Porsche
Son Scottie drives a Porsche, had a broken antennae
Took it to the shop, must wait for a part from Germany
Six weels later
Arrived by freighter
Wrong part......

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Categories: freighter, horror,
Form: Limerick

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