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Best Voyages Poems

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Premium Member Voyages of Promise
They are  living daydreams,
dressed in clouds of  light

brought into being
from stardust
a lost race

 Eternal, childlike

No -one knows the star
Or, from how far they travelled

To pause at...

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Categories: voyages, allegory, hope, travel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Death of a Poet
I read my obituary
Accolades run afoul to lighten the souls of the living
Trite clichés, forgotten kin, melodic tributes
Boring and meaningless

Upon a granite stone etched for...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voyages, death, poets,
Form: Free verse
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse

O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten...

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Categories: voyages, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
A Ghostly Tear
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O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...

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Categories: voyages, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Wind
Ascending towering mountains with the greatest of ease,
laughing as foliage tickles my tummy with soft, feathery leaves.

Endless melodies, I have played, breezing through dangling chimes,
luring...

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Categories: voyages, nature, wind,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Shadows of the Past
A child in time
Innocence was not youth, innocence was the times
We all sat at the dinner table
Discussions were lively, as adult’s sipped wine

That old Volkswagen,...

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Categories: voyages, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Deep Beneath the Ocean
The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal...

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Categories: voyages, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Graveyard of Ships
Beneath the fathom’s deep, in wreckage’s graveyard
Of the forgotten, here the broken bones of ships lie still,
Covered in a forest of seaweeds greenery.
Corrosion steel hauls...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voyages, hero, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing Stream
Nestled in a mountain town, 
Enclosed in downs of clouds,
Flows a dancing stream
Spiraling, bouncing,
Swaying along with the mountain breeze 

Winding through trees, rocks and bushes,
Supporting...

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Categories: voyages, nature, river,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Whispers
Eternity never seems to last
Viewing life through misty windows
October winds wrapping fears
Love dancing with lonely tears

Lost in dreams
Other illusions scream
Voyages all but gone
Eternal voices, lay...

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Categories: voyages, art, autumn, imagination, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member How To Slow Down Time
Walk everywhere. Go on long sea voyages;
Ask for days like symphonies of slow music,
banks of blue flowers to wrap you in the moment.
Become immersed ...

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Categories: voyages, analogy, imagination, time,
Form: Free verse
Showtime
"Turn on the television",
Says an angel munching popcorn,
At the end of each century
"What are the humans up to?"

15th Century:
Columbus exploring lands on unending voyages
Enchanting symphonies...

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Categories: voyages, world,
Form: Free verse
Cry From the Rim
Where the water washes white surfs across
Sand banks porous with green dreams in our hearts
Where the sun surveys the wet desert of loss
The salt thread...

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Categories: voyages, historypeople, sea, water, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Journey a Devotion Poem
JOURNEY   — A Devotion Poem 
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Categories: voyages, devotion, fantasy, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child's Play
I have a toddler who loves to play
Pretend – imaginary friend, make-believe
She pierces my heart with her adventures
Into the fantasy land of dinosaurs,
Dungeons and dragons,...

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Categories: voyages, 1st grade, animal, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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