Best Rafted Poems

When did you enter into my life? 
Was it when the crying baby in the cradle received a warm hug from her mother? 
or was it when the children cheerfully ran home after the school's long bell? 

When did you start sharing your creamy thoughts...

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The Sittee River


Tumbling down from the magnificent Maya Mountains,
The rabid Sittee River rushed headlong, 
Over-flooding its banks and the giant mangroves
On its long journey to the open Caribbean Sea.
Once forest green, the River’s color was now a dirty brown.
Hundreds of floating logs all rafted and...

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Her hands, I see, are sweetly crafted
My hands, her hair, a river rafted
Or ruby coasts on which I sail
The shore, her face - sublime detail
With sand, so white, so pure, and smooth
Sifting as my fingers move
Her face, her heart, a new frontier
My heart, full sail,...

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We tore out this hell and sank this English ship
We rafted a life till the Americas ran us dry
A sandy engagement, laughter, our world to tip
Our beats, our waves to sounds ugliest cry
In plunged your thunder to our words your stip
To have us quiet, browbeat,...

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The ones who would soak 
the mother who drowned 
her children in serpentine
seas never floated a child. 

When splashed amongst 
the horror-stricken, 
we too feign revulsion. 
Evoke higher powers and
baptismal pools: the fluidity
in the womb. The commingled bond.
 
But single us out, and buoys
snare our...

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Hello young man! I surely have heard a lot about you.
I drove here as soon as I heard the news,
And I’ve something to say if you can excuse.
 
God gave a bird in my nest, we call her Steffy.
She grew up fair, slim, silent but...

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Pocketfuls of my pressing prayers have known
Answers though responses never arrived by
Thursday as my anxious anguish hoped, coming
Instead at a more ideal time than I had ever
Envisioned for my prayer depth could not answers
Name as ideally as Heaven's awesome blessings,
Crafted unique for me by omnipotent...

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The fleeting dawn has translucent crystal light
that shimmers and wrinkles my furrowed slack skin. 
Then a temperate touch, my terrors ignite
as beneath my waves, dark currents surge within;
since time began, I have carried human kind;
but still I yearn to swallow a troubled mind. 

From hell...

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I walked along the Mississippi shoreline at midnight
Listening to distant barges groaning in the dark
And thinking about Mark Twain
Drifting down the river on a lazy summer day.

It's the same old Mississippi he rafted on,
The same course, just different water.

Those lovers heard the barges groaning, too,...

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curt hissy Matthew Scott Harris
who wishes ewe well
to make $cents of the following
mumbo jumbo lettered gumbo.

Hip puck crease see
(ad hoc) key hide dee claim
haint how my noggin 
comports itself to take aim,
cuz ear lee aire two 
yeast tar dies ague
this hue more us, 
in fame...

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V-erse
I-s
C-rafted
K-eeping
Y-our

O-ne
B-right
L-ife
I-n
G-lee
A-s
C-omposer
I-mplements
O-utstanding
N-ote

Topic: Birthday of Vicky F. Obligacion (January 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Ten boats rafted together,
Wine time, no mowing the lawn,
Twenty fast friends forever,
Ready for challenges of next dawn!


March 29, 2022
Contest: Lind30 Rhyme
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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I’ve never climbed a mountain
Or gone up in a balloon
And if I never scuba dive,
Well, that will be too soon.

I’ve never rafted rapids,
Para-sailed or water-skied
And as for jumping off a cliff,
I just don’t see the need.

I’ve not trekked in the arctic
Or safaried with a guide
And...

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Crafted from angel’s tears
Calorie rich, who cares
Cholesterol? Plenty
Comfort food for many
Call me Captain Cheddar
Come hither, dearest cheese
Caress my taste buds, please...

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M-essage
I-s
C-rafted
H-appily
A-nd
E-xcellent
L-ine's

R-ighteous
E-xpression
N-icely
E-mploys

G-reatness
A-s
T-ruth
M-akes
I-t
N-oble

Topic: Birthday of Michael Rene Gatmin (August 26)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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