Best Oarsman Poems
So It Shall Be
...
“ So It Shall Be ”
Aye... then so it shall be...
as faire lass doth so request now o'me.
A'holler so 'twas that o'which she'd asked...
In a where and a how thus thrice deftly masked.
'Tis ......
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Categories:
oarsman, adventure, time, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Paradox
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"The Paradox"
When we had crossed Styx
like a slow game of knuckles
we were thrown for a six
it was like the party
had kick started
way ahead of time
without us
......
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Categories:
oarsman, journey, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
One In a Million
...One in a million, gazillion, bazillion
Worth more than gold dollars a trillion or a billion –
You are my beacon, a Christian, love driven.
No heathen, no herdsman, no huntsman or felon.
No elfin,......
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Categories:
oarsman, devotion, family, husband, lovelove,
Form:
Rhyme
Come By the Sword Die By the Sword
...The Bard of the Norseman
A warrior’s fame and for glory all Norseman live worthy of life
Worthy the Norseman with warring axe to victory and spilt Saxon blood
For spoils of the serpent’s lair lie acr......
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Categories:
oarsman, adventure, hero, history, mythology,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Mine That Has No Gold
...A true creator of words
puts everything he's got
in poems that aren't songs;
if only music could bring them to light,
the mine that has no gold
would be found in each written word!
Some leave......
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Categories:
oarsman, absence, courage, friendship, image,
Form:
Rhyme
Limerick Crochet: the Saga of Sea Anne-Anne
...Limerick crochet: The Saga of Sea Anne-Anne
Once the Captain of the good ship Anne-Anne
Took to the waves to conquer the main.
Slept round the clock mid-ship
Towed his women aft-ship:
Yet wome......
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Categories:
oarsman, lost love,
Form:
Limerick
Moments
...Moments upon the loom of time woven
Eternally imprinted 'pon the print
Memories cling, never spent, now frozen
Operate the loom, change design's intent
Reverse the hands of time memories change
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Categories:
oarsman, desire, devotion, faith, love,
Form:
Sonnet
On the Death of Richard Holbrooke
...Rough seas, brimmed with foam, shall rage in silent shadows now
Inconsolable love, the great oarsman is no more
Corridors of power heed this dying! void's the bow;
Helmsman gone, gone suddenly th......
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Categories:
oarsman, death, political
Form:
Acrostic
Stars and Bloody Stripes
...Raise your gaze and mind to the flag,
And there see all that we bear to this land –
A looking glass it is of our hopes and deeds.
Stars and stripes are all I ever see:
Stars that make my heart ho......
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Categories:
oarsman, community, conflict, political, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Take Me Home
...Oh! oarsman
Take me home
Yonder lies
My cuddled dreams
My sweatheart and everything
I have been away
Too long
Eons and scores sway
Too small to hum their song....
Cant bear the ripples......
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Categories:
oarsman, boat, family, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Strokin' - Part One and Part Two
...STROKIN’ – A QUARTET ABOUT AGING GRACEFULLY(?)
Strokin’: Hauling ass and working at it!
STROKIN’: PART ONE
THE SPRINTER
The aging Olympian ran a swift anchor leg
burning the first turn, stri......
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Categories:
oarsman, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Unseen Oarsman
...Each artist stroke created an illusion of depth, color, and placement by contasting colors,
lights and darks the picture comes alive...A life that carries on into hearts and minds as long
as that......
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Categories:
oarsman, art, faith, husband, imagination,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A February Testing
...A FEBRUARY TESTING
Distant voices through a window
Steamed up with thirty nervous breaths
And the thunder of a pencil dropped
Like a twig falling in a pond
The silence is choking, a penalt......
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Categories:
oarsman, education, life, school,
Form:
Free verse
An Oarsman
...not a captain or a first mate
but an oarsman was to be their fate
the oarsman row the ship along
either one , two or hundreds strong
one small part of a large ship
but surly the tool that car......
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Categories:
oarsman, angstwork, work,
Form:
Narrative
Persephone's Finger
...Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth
It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air,
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the ......
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Categories:
oarsman, angst, character, day, death,
Form:
Free verse