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Best Shipwrecked Poems

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Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shipwrecked, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Categories: shipwrecked, loss, love, ocean,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: shipwrecked, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Disorientation
My distant spirit is dying, 
disheartened, disintegrating and self deprecating.
Defenceless, as hope disappears,
emotionally shipwrecked in deep waters,
yet to be discovered. 

In the sadness of sentimental...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shipwrecked, angst, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Mermaid Epitaphs
  As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
   with swelled up  w a v e s
  of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
  with...

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Categories: shipwrecked, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lonely Lighthouse
The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantly
Or swarthy seafarers incessantly
On oceans perilous, tempestuous
A sailor’s salvation...

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Categories: shipwrecked, light, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Autumn
Autumn unreeled
Forests shaken hollow
               settling
      ...

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Categories: shipwrecked, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tempest
The Tempest

Upon enchanted sands of shipbreached shores
Dethroned beggar of a borrowed callow mystery
Heaves a lightning staff into the waves -
Thunderous and raw clandestine secrecy
On luminous...

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Categories: shipwrecked, life, ocean, peace, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun-kissed Silhouettes - First Draft
Upon her last sighs, she narrates cosmic 
sagas flowing within poetic veins.
She still remembers 
those idyllic evenings, 
engrossed in raining confessions, 
influenced by her shipwrecked...

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Categories: shipwrecked, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hearing
When symphonic waves crash on soundless shores,
Listen to the cadence of silent seas,
He's a virtuoso of voiceless woes,
orchestrating pre-written faith, at ease.

For every tainted tide,...

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Categories: shipwrecked, deep, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soft
“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.” ~Victoria Erickson

Tonight the moon sanctioned...

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Categories: shipwrecked, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul's Cry
Marooned on the island of loneliness
Shadows of delusion confront me
In a stormy sea, I got shipwrecked
And the sea has robbed everything from me
What unanticipated change...

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Categories: shipwrecked, angst, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Unbound
I'm a ship alive with voice
Adrift on the oceans of time
Sailing through a storm of choice
On waves of verse that need no rhyme.

Never far from...

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Categories: shipwrecked, hope, inspirational
Form: Personification
What Shall We Do
It was out in Venezuela when I ran into this sailor
He was sitting at the bar, right next to me 
He was rugged he was...

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© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shipwrecked, adventure, time,
Form: Rhyme
Sex and the British
They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping  ...

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Categories: shipwrecked, love, psychological, sexy, social,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things