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Best Winch Poems

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


Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: winch, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member In Praise of Washing Dishes
With hands immersed in suds and water warm,
I stand before the sink, humbled vassal,
To plates and dishes, grease and grime the norm,
My task to cleanse...

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Categories: winch, encouraging, humanity, perspective, power,
Form: Sonnet
Car Court
CAR   COURT


Enter,   the older   heavyweight  steel  giant,
The bailiff,  a   1954 Hudson,  reads unhesitant...

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Categories: winch, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rod's Spanner
I have some favorite tools I use,
Whenever I ply my trade, 
From the hammer in my leather pouch, 
To the retractable cutting blade.

I also love...

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Categories: winch, funny, work,
Form: Quatrain
Lobster Fishing
Lobster Fishing

It was still dark when I arrived at five o’clock
I commenced the day by going to the wrong dock
I was a little concerned that...

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Categories: winch, adventure, work, sea, boat,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Wife Went Shopping Yesterday
My wife went shopping yesterday
Posted missing what do the police say
Her weight color and eyes
Please tell me he cries
I need to know for the missing's...

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Categories: winch, anxiety, car, grief, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Captain
He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke

Looking out as the waves crashed ashore

He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke

As the storm...

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Categories: winch, america, bereavement, child, dad,
Form: Epic
National Treasures No 1 Dame Judy Dench Inna Ragga Mc Stylee Innit
Dame Judy Dench
Loves to fish for Tench
When she fixes her motor
She uses a wrench
If she’s feeling tired she sits down on a bench,
DJD is polylingual;
Her...

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Categories: winch, england, hero, hip hop,
Form: Light Verse
Irreverent Hotheaded Grinch
(Any resemblance between said title,
as told tummy by ya finch,
and commander in chief,...
not accidental, nor a cinch
buttock hum posed on behalf

of these bottom ming out
fifty...

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Categories: winch, age, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clouded Window of Time
Why, does existing have to be
burdensome. My mortal thoughts flee
like rain drumming at my window, 
then trickles releasing a dam 
leaving me brittle to exam
my...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winch, age, depression, old, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Littoral
The wind faces us down, a bitter housemaster
seeing our tricks, he raises his willowy cane, 
jealous of our freedom and wings 

Then pitiless comes the...

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Categories: winch, family, fear, storm,
Form: Verse
This Morning I Woke Up a Pirate
Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came...

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Categories: winch, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Verse
I am  so enthralled by a verse
an impressive and virile style conquered
quenching one’s thirst seems hardly emerge
however; all songs, stories and ideas being shared
are...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winch, words,
Form: Quintain (English)
Woke Up This Morning a Pirate
Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came...

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Categories: winch, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Heaven Can Wait
Dawn breaks ruby red, windy day in sight.
Sailors scorning its warning, grab a bite
Pack their gear, rush to yacht, hoist sails upright.
Sea weathered mates, love...

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Categories: winch, sea,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs