Best Overboard Poems

Two scruffy pirates picked me up.
Intending to toss me overboard.
I weighed too much; they were struggling.
True.
They needed to lighten their load.
But I was not going easy.
I purposefully got heavier.
"She is flotsom," the tall fat one said.
"Jetsam," the dumb ugly one argued.
"Let's get a dictionary," I...

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Im happy as long as im free
so why live by admiralty?
im not on a boat
my thoughts make me float
this continent isnt a sea...

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Overboard


Knocked overboard by my brother the leech,
I awoke to find myself on a beach,
covered in seaweed and sand.
I’ll ruin his plans; I’ll fight and survive,
with no real supplies, I’ll conquer and thrive,
till justice I’ll demand.

On a tall windy hill, I built my shack;
out of the...

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My bedroom has been flooded
and now I'm drowning in my thoughts.
Questions of what is and what isn't
floating about like hundreds of jellyfish.
They wait for me to venture out
so that they can sting me and send me 
sinking
into the abyss that is my very own mind.
There...

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You bob up and down
In the vast blue sea
Standard and alone
Chilled to the bone
Can’t feel your legs
Finger all numb
As you pray to god for someone to come
Too painful to cry
No energy to shout 
Pretty clear time is running out
Thinking of your family
All of your friends
life...

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God has already prepared a big sea fish;
So, throw Jonah overboard.
You will make promises to this God
After you throw Jonah overboard.
The wild squall will finally be calmed
When you throw Jonah overboard.
Pray to God for what you're about to do
And throw Jonah overboard.

You won't be able...

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Constantly trying to get something for oneself-- 
Sit down, you're rocking the boat. 
Constantly trying to have the last word-- 
Sit down, you're rocking the boat. 
Constantly judging yourself and others-- 
Sit down, you're rocking the boat.
Remember, you are never lost at sea. 
Simply sit...

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On the icy edge of never
where she turned down every try,

he pursued his great endeavor
with a twinkle in his eye.

Never take no for an answer,
was his motto to the end,

for he was a great romancer,
hiding out as just a friend.

In the middle of the Harbor,
swimming...

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Why couldn't we be best friends my love
Our hearts afire, once matched  like a glove
Yet your eyes are now distant from me
Be best friends my love, why couldn't we

I've been the straightest arrow you know
I loved you from your head to your toe
Lately your...

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Jonah fled from God because he didn't want to warn the Ninevites.
But he finally came to his senses, Jonah soon saw the light.
Jonah went aboard a ship and Jehovah God caused a terrible storm.
When God gave Jonah the mission to carry out, he refused to...

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A summer house-boat party - Matey - toss those cares overboard. The scout boat found a deserted cove so the party can be privately fierce.

The lake's broken reflections of moonlight look like jewels on black satin.

There are all kinds of drinks - ALL kinds -...

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Overboard
(commentary on the January 6, 2021 capitol invasion)
By Franklin Price
01/17/2021

Many have gone overboard, as we sail the ship of state
What Donald Trump did on the sixth, was far from being great
I'm not convinced, the reason why, was somewhat justified
I'm not convinced the vote was fair,...

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Overreacted to what
Was placed within the 
Current path
Went emotional overboard
With reactions as of late
Emotions took brief control
Over the heart of the matter 
Then crazy fogs has passed 
Leaving claim in its Wake
Thank god in heaven...

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She is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea

Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board

Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many moons ago
with no route to a harbor
or home

Yet, a paradox
in this pattern of flight
a sudden urge
to reach for the ties
severed...

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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and
freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.
—H.P. Lovecraft, The Best of H.P. Lovecraft:
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

His Overboard Tale

My captain bellows, “heave-ho.”
Off the plank I go, overboard.

I plunged into the night, entangled in
aberrant irises...

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