Best Make Headway Poems

River’s Arising
By Michelle Waters

River’s arising. Danger’s on hand.
Gather up your kinfolk and get to high land.

The campgrounds are empty, RVs are all gone
Tourists packed up...

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I starts me life as pirate, 
A grommet before age twelve,
Not an ordinary bandit,
High sea adventures me delve.

With a Letter of Marque in me han’
And...

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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
ever haunting in devious wombs...
tattered voyagers embarking to the confine,
and by nightfall, swarthy leather pants
whip and crack like the...

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'Twas the night before Christmas, when...
   Oh no, said Rudolph!  Stuck again!
      The sky is dense and...

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Word-painting, they say; or painting with words,
In charm, it's charmer than most charming birds; 
Feeling, for many, is its first foundation,
Expression, in words, brings affirmation;
Sentiment...

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It’s the fourth - fireworks; the fizzle of stars.
The colorful display of power of the people —
waving of the red, white and blue; freedom
rings, slowly,...

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I hear your tiny fingers shuffle
against the textured walls, trying
to feel for a crack to slide into 
and hide from the fact that you are...

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Criminal reform - we think of those who deserve a second chance or are caught in a system where they can never make headway, or...

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As I walk the barren desert
With a small flower in my hand
Leaving my footprints in the sand
Swiping them, to erase the hurt

I think of your...

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To have hope in your heart is to believe,

To have faith within yourself and disbelieve,

You wont more from your life than is given,

To strive for...

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Walking on eggshells
Tight lipped
Uncertain of every word spoken
Least the tempest
Will be released  

Roaring
Waves splashing
Wind storm blowing
Boat rocking
Turquoise water falling

Aimed for shore
Making no headway
Two feet...

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Kentucky's late summer sunshine
sunk deep into their skin
as the boy rode on the back
of his Grandfather's coppered horse,
the tobacco harvest would begin soon,
aromas of sweet...

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Can you get my point and drift?
It’s in my free verse and also rhyme.
They say ‘Life’s a beach’
I say, “All the time” 
and there’s a...

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In homage to the waters around the UK and all those who sail them...


Late at night and early dawn
Like clockwork - every day are heard
Those...

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Deep ocean of azure blue

Overhead seagulls circling flew

In constant motion, heaving sides

The old merchant ship upon it rides

Rust scorched it's barnacled coat

Salt encrusted railings forever...

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