Best Skiff Poems
Below are the all-time best Skiff poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of skiff poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
skiff, earth, introspection, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Hauling by Rowing
Written: December 12, 2023
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Twilight swallowed me, striking me speechless
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Categories:
skiff, analogy, appreciation, friendship, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
The RuinIt stood on the top of the hill
dominating all of its surrounds.
Its drawbridge these days lay open
spanning with ease the now dry moat.
Like a fairy...
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Categories:
skiff, fantasy, grandson, imagery,
Form:
Epic
A Mutiny On the BountyIt was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean...
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Categories:
skiff, words, me, men, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Brand New10/17/19
"Brand New"
I'd be damned to quit
Putting out some brand new s***
With a brand new drip
In my a step a brand new skip
Brand new tint
Steering wheel...
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Categories:
skiff, dark, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire On the Ohio RiverMy boat rocks gently under a reddening sun,
is it wrong to wish for a Viking burial,
to ponder a last journey West
into the dying light?
Strangers have...
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Categories:
skiff, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Swells of Crested WavesFading rays of day were giving way to twilight as I stood on the precipice overlooking the ocean. Minutes earlier, I was in the arms...
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Categories:
skiff, ocean, wind,
Form:
Haibun
Reflections By Commodore John Barry“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...
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Categories:
skiff, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form:
Epic
Fisherman - Yellow 4yellow ochre colored river flows, like a shy child’s beating heart that light up the cosmos
beneath callus imprints etched in watery depths below
a...
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Categories:
skiff, boat, imagery,
Form:
Verse
A Bad Day On the High Seas - RepostYe dirty son of a sea dog
Ye rotten pile o' bones
Ye'll see the end o' me cutlass
I'll intrrroduce ye to Davey Jones
Ye'll not be getn...
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Categories:
skiff, humor, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
The FishermanHe casts his net in cool, deep water,
Intent on things below.
Silently I watch him work,
But he will never know.
The sun gleams off his sun bronzed...
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Categories:
skiff, beauty,
Form:
Quatrain
The FishermanHe casts his net in cool, deep water,
Intent on things below.
Silently I watch him work,
But he will never know.
The sun gleams off his sun bronzed...
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Categories:
skiff, memory,
Form:
Quatrain
Two LensesWhen I was young and had zero dollars to spend
Grandpa's skiff with succulent mangoes I loved to tend
With view of City canal, flowing not far...
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Categories:
skiff, boat, childhood, community, freedom,
Form:
Bio
My Father's BoatA seagull’s cry
Twilight fog deepening
A distant bell gong
The quiet rattle of chord against mast
A partial conversation soon lost
The skiff fading into shadow
A hot mug of...
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Categories:
skiff, boat, father, fishing, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Fall Ingpondered
I discovered the season's called FALL,
'cause ambition skips casting’s call.
rain and darkness
grumpy bark-ness
I sink like a skiff in a squall
pleaded
Doctor! Doctor! Diagnosis?
It feels fatal —...
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Categories:
skiff, nonsense, seasons,
Form:
Limerick