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Best Tank Ship Poems

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Who Is a Prisoner Now
Who is a Prisoner Now
 
My back yard has high walls and is like sun trap, I sit here and 
get a tan in winters......

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Categories: tank ship, basketball, beach, beauty,
Form: Blank verse



The Nature of Success
The Nature of Success. 

On an old tank ship that was so slow it felt as
we were suspended in time, a world shrunk 
only us...

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Categories: tank ship, adventure, depression, education, introspection,
Form: Ode
Away From the Camera
Away From the Camera. 

In the Bay of Bengal, near Tripura, a tank ship ran 
aground, an old ship that had been economical for 
its...

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Categories: tank ship, fantasy, old, old,
Form: Blank verse
Fifty Years Ago a Dedication
Fifty Years Ago a Dedication  
It was nice day in the Caribbean Sea I was on 
a small tank ship called “Saphir” a radio...

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Categories: tank ship, dedication, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
The Cow
The Cow

By the edge of the cliff where the grass is juicy
the cow tried to eat it all the last straw you can say
alas, it...

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Categories: tank ship, beach, boat, community,
Form: Blank verse



A Seamans War
The Merchant seafarers` war

When world war two started Norway was
neutral but unsure which side to stay on.
The English thought occupying Norway 
but they were too...

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Categories: tank ship, absence, deep, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia
 Voyaging from Cuba to South Korea across the Pacific
takes about three weeks on an old freighter, but we knew
it had a beginning and an...

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Categories: tank ship, 5th grade, celebrity, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Voyaging
Voyaging 

The high seas and the battle for a meaning
of life, not on a ship that runs on routine.
The Panama Canal, have I been there...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tank ship, animal, anniversary, evil,
Form: Sonnet
68 Years Ago
68 years ago

68 years ago, I was onboard the world's oldest tank ship
wooden decks and looking like a sailing ship more than 
a tanker in...

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Categories: tank ship, books, conflict, devotion, history,
Form: Blank verse
Remembering a Dog
Remembering a dog


When I was young and for us not rich there was
navy academia you could learn engineering, navigation 
and catering, with my eyesight I...

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Categories: tank ship, absence, best friend, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
The End of Everything
The end of everything

The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years he had been
the master...

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Categories: tank ship, absence, break up, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
A Boy Goes Ashore
A boy and shore leave

The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old
tank ship late at night looking up to...

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Categories: tank ship, absence, abuse, blessing, confidence,
Form: Blank verse
The Last Voyage
A ship’s last voyage

The tank ship that looked like a schooner finally
made it from the black sea to Reykjavik in Iceland  
The ship dry...

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Categories: tank ship, best friend, devotion, integrity,
Form: Blank verse
The Assassination
Assassination of President Kennedy 

The tank ship was on the way to Kingston in Jamaica
The sea was deep blue, the weather calm, In a few...

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Categories: tank ship, africa, bangla, beach, body,
Form: Blank verse
from russia with love
Russia, my lovely

Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day 
galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956
as the youngest...

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Categories: tank ship, absence, anti bullying, birth,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs