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Best Plain Sailing Poems

Below are the all-time best Plain Sailing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of plain sailing poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Punny Death
A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had...

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Categories: plain sailing, allegory,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Life Is Sweet
In the space of six weeks,
had two operations,
the first was plain sailing,
the second one I began failing.
Everything went wrong,
I caught a super bug,
heart, liver kidneys,...

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Categories: plain sailing, life,
Form: Free verse
Being a Boro Fan
The first day of a new football season,what does it hold in store
 will it be de ja vous,or many goals will score
Boro, always seem,...

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Categories: plain sailing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Rob Davies
Rob played semi-professional rugby, 
From when he was 4 until the age of 21, 
When he got a serious spinal cord injury, 
Whilst playing that...

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Categories: plain sailing, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Sigh of Relief
Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding back
While...

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Categories: plain sailing, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Alliteration



A Betrayed Secret
Anybody, yes, anybody,  can do poetry these days, though
getting it published is a tad more difficult.
For that you must be determined and thick-skinned,
irrespective of...

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Categories: plain sailing, betrayal, poetry, satire,
Form: Burlesque
Darkest Aspiration
Trekking along with weighty doubts,
Piled repeatedly and in attempt,
The dream so rewarding in giant
But not so plain sailing in its dark clouds.

You keep pushing and...

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Categories: plain sailing, career, confidence, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Thats Life
A hostage to fortune, a throw of the dice
Your confidence blind as you skate on thin ice
The plans that made that you think cannot fail
Are...

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Categories: plain sailing, life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member When Chaos Reigns
It would be so easy
just to give up on life

It would make complete sense
just to let go

the moment of anger is gone
it’s about keeping yourself...

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Categories: plain sailing, introspection, life, uplifting
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Life's Mountain
One climbs the mountain of life
some full of hope others with fear
each one taking a separate path
already making life changing choices

For some the climb long...

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Categories: plain sailing, life, mountains,
Form: Verse
Hard To Sleep During An Apocalypse
Insomnia,
Life is worthless,
This society is sinking into hell,
Wake up screming,
Fight fire with fire,
Then nothingness,
And ghostdom,
Does he move us around then put us to sleep,
Or are...

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Categories: plain sailing, forgiveness
Form: I do not know?
Y Is a Crooked Letter
whats the point in getting old ??? Let me have a look ...
Firstly I was lucky enough to start a chapter in this book ...
My...

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Categories: plain sailing, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Blissful End
Feeling the cold winds on the feet is bearable
There's always a blanket to shield the hail

But what about the cold hearts that once emitted warmth?
Whose...

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Categories: plain sailing, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Moorings
I am captivated by the idea, sold in fact
Hook, line and sinker by new moorings
The palpable anticipation of change
Buoyed up on the belief it will...

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Categories: plain sailing, change,
Form: Verse
Life Lessons
Don’t let the world make you bitter
Don’t let the world turn you cold
Some things that happen when we're younger
Can come back to haunt us when...

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Categories: plain sailing, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things