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Best Trawling Poems

Below are the all-time best Trawling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of trawling poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member 'gone Phishing' - Trawling the Net For Evil Catfish
Computer catfish anglers
Are out phising every second, day and night
Trawling the world wide web with baited hook
For innocent victims to catch
Internet sites such as Facebook...

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Categories: trawling, computer, dark, evil, internet,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member The Maturing Orchid
He meandered lonely
just a senior citizen
trawling the pathways of his computer,
when suddenly one day in a flash
an enchanting name jumped from the screen
into his unadjusted...

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Categories: trawling, dedication, day, words, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Study In Bronze
I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call? ...

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Categories: trawling, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All Within a Night Shift
‘My biological clock
is upside down,
fifty years and more of night shift,
so, the experts tell us
will decay one’s memory over time.’

To remember the innocence of youth
from...

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Categories: trawling, adventure, appreciation, memory,
Form: Free verse
Fog and Shale
A mackerel sky fillets the village
then hides it in a breezeless blear.
Heads poke out of net drapes
sniff and fish behind trawling curtains.
Shopkeepers brace for
wet dog...

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Categories: trawling, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Star Fall
Unified beneath the dome of star studded sky,
man lies starring at stars fixed or falling.
We wonder who has tossed these gems aside. 

Most singular He...

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Categories: trawling, hope, star, star,
Form: Villanelle
Chasing the Internet
The internet is like a ball
Should be passed on to other people
An understanding, my little son shared
Ideal speed most of us desired

Trawling through the internet
Always...

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Categories: trawling, absence, computer, internet, life,
Form: Rhyme
Call of the Sirens
The harbour rests from the rolling waves			
Of a windswept and tempestuous sea			
Beyond the breakwater lay sailors graves		
Where shipwrecks in eternal sleep rest free		
Once lured upon...

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© David Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trawling, fishing, mythology, ocean, sea,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Nature's Tears
Look at how progress has scarred the planet Earth,
its lush mountains stripped of centuries-old trees
oblivious to value, just their cash worth.

We're not racked with guilt...

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Categories: trawling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Terza Rima
Lazy Afternoon
There is no space between the 
horizon and the ocean
Birds follow boats in a lazy 
circular motion 
It is a lazy hazy Saturday 
afternoon
Topped by a peeping...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trawling, nature
Form: Couplet
Love Poem Generator
I was trawling the internet yesterday and came
across the Love Poem Generator
I thought, disgusted, you can’t generate a love poem
it’s like having sex and calling...

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Categories: trawling, depression, growing up, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Whispers To Me
Dams, mining, extraction and fracking!                    ...

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Categories: trawling, confusion, corruption, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Where Is She
Here I stand, full of expectation; 
With a rose-tinted perception of love; 
Trawling life for a small slice of heaven;
For my sweetest seraph, sent from...

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Categories: trawling, absence, angel, for her,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Lover's Lullaby
How I cherish this time of the day,

When my lover passes by. That gleam in her eye,

Letting me know, her intention is true,

And now it...

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© Pj Bayliss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trawling, desire, love, romantic, sexy,
Form: Romanticism
Rumpelstiltskin Rebranded As Outre Designer Couture
the daughter of a miller abducted, exiled, held 
locked as prisoner didst bawl
achingly, effusively, indubitably murmured plaintively 
quite riotously didst call
out for help, when stalked...

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Categories: trawling, abuse, allegory, anger, art,
Form: Imagism

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