Best Paddled Poems
A Summer Snowstorm Cold
...As I was sitting in my rowboat...at a pond at Martha's Vineyard
I was fishing with my headphones on...listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd
Suddenly, a chilling wind...my god, I almost froze
While fishing......
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Categories:
paddled, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sound of Silence
...This scribble has nothing to do with the famous song of Simon and Garfunkel. It's just a story I invented.
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I bought a cottage in the middle......
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Categories:
paddled, baby, love, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Something's Missing
...It's up and down and twice around
With an ample side of snark and leeks.
And an assortment of lies divided by pi,
To find this thing I seek.
I searched my bedside dresser
In the ho......
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Categories:
paddled, loss, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
My Kayak
...I grab my paddle and life vest
To do the thing that I like best
I put it in the Puget Sound
And ride my kayak all around
I take it out for exercise
I roll it over should it capsize
I’ve paddl......
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Categories:
paddled, adventurelife,
Form:
Rhyme
As I Paddled the River Nile
...As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile.
She smiled at me enticingly.
I smiled deferentially.
Through large white teeth to me she said,
"I want you in my river bed."
"We are ......
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, funny, me, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Steam Train To the Sea
...We are all gathered on the platform
Jumping up and down with glee
We can see the smoke of the puffing train
Coming nearer to take us to the sea
We are off on a Whitsun treat
Forty children or ......
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Categories:
paddled, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The River
...I finished work at noon on Friday and headed home to pack
Put my gear in the trunk and put my canoe on the roof rack
Headed out down the freeway and got off at exit seven
The weekend was now m......
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, america, death, river,
Form:
Narrative
Rock-Paper-Scissors
...My son, Mark is four years old
With scissors he cuts papers and folds
Till he crafts canoe
And once he is through
He'll tag, “Canoe to be sold"
One day he made one so large and tight
To the......
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Categories:
paddled, funny
Form:
Limerick
First Time
...And moistened lips I softly kissed
Beguiling as the dusk's embrace,
That framed with such expressiveness
The perfect smile upon your face,
Which reached out so uncertainly
Although I glimpsed wi......
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Categories:
paddled, time,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heart Yearns
...Back of my heart I yearn
Even for a glimpse of your shadow returns
It is being long past years since we met last
I am on one side and you’re on the other the world vast.
I was sixteen and you were ......
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Categories:
paddled, first love,
Form:
Verse
The River
...Lonely, the river flowed a long while
teeming with tadpoles, insects and fish.
Winding through meadows, it came upon
cows that were grazing near its green banks.
Something came nearer; it was the......
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Categories:
paddled, river,
Form:
Verse
Coco the Clown
...Coco the clown went sailing one day
to a holiday destination far far away
Suddenly, the sky went dark and the wind did blow
and the waves beneath his boat did grow and grow
Coco lost his oar......
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Categories:
paddled, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Thunderstorm
...Once I was in a metal row boat on a lake
Along came a sudden, fierce thunder storm
I was stuck on the other side
In this boat with a friend
The lightening started coming down all around
From sky......
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Categories:
paddled, angst, storm, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Over the River
...
Over the wide stretch of water flowing along,
In a small boat the lovers made their way.
Before them the river hurtled headlong.
Leaving behind the sullen shores, all their cares,
......
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Categories:
paddled, adventure, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
A Lovers Note
...Gentle waves rolled in so white and fluffy
from a sea so blue it made me feel happy
I paddled bare feet in it's warm white foam
all of my thoughts so far from home
when all at once I saw bobbing ......
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Categories:
paddled, lost love, romantic, romantic
Form:
Free verse