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Best Waiting For Your Ship To Come In Poems

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Waiting For a Ship To Come In....
Hair caressing my face 
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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, hopenight, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem Made Up of Cliches
A POEM MADE UP OF CLICHES

At Poetry Soup we're admonished
Never to use cliches
They provide us an extensive list
For the error of our ways

But one thing...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Women Who Drink and Sex
Women who drink and sex 

It was in Livorno and it was a cold January night when I met her
in a bar- where else does...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, abuse, addiction, adventure, analogy,
Form: Bio
The Lost Diary
The Lost Diary

All this while
Had remained still in the rain
Scratching and scouting for my diary
Seeping but stucked in my senses
The lost diary
I left it in...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, lost loveheart, lost, heart,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member A Sailor's Dream
A CHANCE TO SAIL IS ALL I ASK
A CHANCE TO RIDE THE WIND.
I’VE DREAMED THIS DREAM A MILLION TIMES,
THEN DREAMED IT ALL AGAIN.

I’VE CAST ALL...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, dream, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Door of No Return
DOOR OF NO RETURN

The story of fathers we tell,
Chained, beating, walking in desert land.
Moving down the coast,
To the door of no return,
Saying goodbye to their...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, abuse, africa, death, evil,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Make It Happen
While waiting for my ship to come in
Others got to it first by going for a swim

While waiting for opportunity to knock
It was met in...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, inspirational, introspection, life
Form: Couplet
The Ship Officer and a Lady
The ship officer and the Lady 

As I waited for my ship to dock at the onion pier,
a clerk came and handed me a bag...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, angst, faith, friendship, funny,
Form: Blank verse
The Beatles
The Beatles (strawberry fields forever)

Once in the Liverpool cavern I saw the Beetles perform, before 
fame made them impossible to reach. Walked down dirty steps...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, adventure
Form: I do not know?
Poets and Lovers
people always watch as the sun starts setting
like an eye, the stars focus in sight
the day’s decisions now turn to regretting
with the red vanishing to...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, confusion, loss, love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loving Someone
Loving someone who doesn't love you is sort
of like waiting for a ship at the airport....

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, love,
Form: Rhyme
Choices We Make
The Choice

I sat alone in my bunk
Waiting for the ship to reach the shore
Not for brevity

But stay docked for many days
So, I could enjoy the...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, 4th grade, books, break
Form: Blank verse
Only Waiting
Only Waiting

Only waiting till the threads are drawn,
Across the golden scheme;
Only waiting till the seed is sown;
On to the sodden stream.

Only waiting till the ship...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, allusion, angel, bible, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Sent To the Breakers
Having to forget you is a misconception.
I understand that things happen and these things we often have no control over.
Consequence. 
Watching the boat leave it's...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, black african american, boat,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Your Love
The stupid girl I am, still waiting for the phone to ring
Waiting for your voice to warm my heart again
I still can’t believe there was...

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Categories: waiting for your ship to come in, break up,
Form: Free verse

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