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Best Missed The Boat Poems

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Premium Member Missed the Boat
She sits in the old rocking chair
Threads of silver in her golden hair
Alone in the glow of candle light
She rocks so gently in the night

Outside...

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Categories: missed the boat, lost love, summer, autumn,
Form: Rhyme



I Think You'Ve Missed the Boat
I think you've missed the boat
it's time to stop trying
Her words echoed through me
but never will I stop trying

Sometimes it's better 
to be on a...

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Categories: missed the boat, abuse, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
The Painful Facts
The Painful Facts
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain...

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Categories: missed the boat, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit of Chantel Noel
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her...

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Categories: missed the boat, caregiving, daughter, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hurricanes Up Close and Personal
Hurricanes Up Close And Personal

As of this writing, Florence is intensifying and threatening the shores of the Carolinas.  She is dangerous, even in her...

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Categories: missed the boat, nature, rain, weather,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Science - Modern Man's Burning Bush
Friends, a lifeboat can pose a dilemma to all!
Let’s imagine like Noah that you’ve built an arc
But then night comes and lightning bolts shatter the...

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Categories: missed the boat, life,
Form: Rhyme
Is This Ticket Redeemable
"is this ticket redeemable"

Once I thought that
poems had faces
whose silent plans
offer checkered meditations,
who weave endings 
to hope´s beginnings, 
whose raw robust smiles
explode in dizzy contemplations,
who...

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Categories: missed the boat, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Captain of Destiny Industry
God asked Noah to construct an ark
He provided him a detailed instruction
God gave him a head start, prior to construction
It would have three decks, a...

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Categories: missed the boat, poems,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Two Tips On Titles
Nothing disappoints like a misleading title
For your reader will look for its theme throughout
And if no plausible link can be made, the reader
Will wonder why...

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Categories: missed the boat, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Painful Facts
nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her torment...

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Categories: missed the boat, family, life, love, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Digital Creationism
Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)         

Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And...

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Categories: missed the boat, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Pith and Tar
Of Pith and Tar

Leaves are burning, bleeding and turning
their insides all running out
I see the fires of forests churning
before the Lorax can shout

Towers and spires...

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© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, philosophy, time, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Head In the Sand
You can look the other way, say you did not see a thing
Do not want to get involved, let the other guy do it
Beside you...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member W-Hooy On the Who,S
The Who,s down in Whoville
Well, I've heard them sing before
I don't think that they're great
Nor did I feel that way before
Oh, they hum a pretty...

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Categories: missed the boat, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
A Breif Encouter
I remember when I met this girl while I was stuck in the train station
 Even if it was a brief encounter and we only...

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Categories: missed the boat, write,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs