Best Jump Ship Poems

She tried to get my attention a number of times
But It was not possible because
I was a country or two away
Wearing brown leather swashbuckler pants
White...

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On this vessel for far too long.          
But as captain, I can't jump ship.      
The land taunts, to me you belong.  
Why...

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Many who help celebrate our victories
Leave early in our defeat
Many who applaud our few accomplishments
Jump ship when failure we do meet
Many who join our team...

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Drowning

What is it about falling in love
that makes us an emotional mess?
Even those as innocent as a dove
are too often put to the test.

I was...

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It wasn’t me that said I’m going to build a great wall
I’ll make Mexico pay! Now that takes gall
It wasn’t me that took millions from...

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Taylor and Her Sailor - Limerick

There Once Was A Lady Named Taylor
Who Fell In Love With A Two-Timing Sailor
One Day, She Caught Him In The...

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Theres a very simple thing in life, and its called love. Love conquers all. Love has conquered me, finally. Conquered me by knowing, feeling, living...

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~Haiku~

your love flew away 
like a migrating bird
and never came back...

~Limerick~

Your lack of love pushed me to the floor
I couldn’t take it anymore
I signed on...

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The Language of the Sea .......by Peter Onyancha

I am left in the marriage of one Odeon poet
At dawn there is light deep above the water
In...

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I once was a farmer
I worked the land
I reaped the corn 
With a scythe in my hand

I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed 
I grew...

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Naked alone my teeth are sinking in the bone
The ship is sinking all are in fear
I do, let's jump; overboard
Naked clotheless the chocolates are in...

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About time,
I've paid my dues I've crossed the line,
This moment I thought would never come,
Is in my grasp, the deed now done.

Don't get me wrong,...

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I haven’t written a fiddle-faddle footle in a while. Here goes:

flotsam
bought some

     floating
     doting

for miles
exiles

  ...

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Adorable and Deplorable

If Democrats what you do is adorable
Things Republicans did were deplorable
What we received from latest briefing
A bunch of bologna beyond believing.

Them laughing was...

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I'm searching for truth in her eyes
I need to know the purpose
I need a signal to jump ship
before its too late to reverse this.
These feelings...

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