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YOUR SYMPHONY OF JOY
Categories:
boat, fantasy, how i
Form: Quatrain
Two BoatsA yacht named Archimedes passed
Behind the local ferry,
Both likely headed to complete
Today’s itinerary.
I know just where the ferry goes
And what it’s like to ride it.
As for the yacht, I’d love to see
Exactly what’s inside it.
My...
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Categories:
boat,
Form: Rhyme
ICEBERGICEBERG
Iceberg in the ocean
Implicit danger then
In transit to New York
Injury to the hull
Impossible to float
Into the depths she sank
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Categories:
boat,
Form: Pleiades
6 Lines6 Lines
Shored-up wooden boats standing in the mud, braced by boards to stand erect,
We vigilant men past sixty, retain our dignity, and point to heaven, with masts securely fixed to the deck.
Like...
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Categories:
boat, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
The British SeashoreOn the cliff at the Worm’s Head
High above the horns of the bay
I see the surfers ride great waves
With horses’ manes
That ever fail, but never end
In the strong Atlantic surge
In the estuary at Dartmouth
Where...
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Categories:
beach, boat, environment, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Wish and ShipsHe likes to wait until his lingering end,
sitting on the beach with fish and chips.
Often wonders what life is about.
Why is that boat there, that ship farther out, and yet another?
Will they still be there...
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Categories:
boat, cheer up, fish,
Form: Free verse
Queen MaryI travel beyond the depth of time trying to figure out what is mine. I float on the surface of the sea with the sun spilling its radiant energy all over me.
I drift for...
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Categories:
beauty, blue, boat, business,
Form: Narrative
love and horrorHorror and love
He rented a room in Puerto Lemon to make love to
a woman beautiful, but since both of them came from one of those hideous little towns along the coast of Norway they had...
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Categories:
absence, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Blank verse
On waves of midnight blue -On waves of midnight blue –
We shoved off in the boat –
It mattered not where to –
Anywhere at a casual knot.
We entered a world of darkness
None...
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Categories:
blue, boat, kiss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Refloating of The Mangana
Its rusted iron ribs
hint a once proud shape
that now rings a hollow gut
filled and flushed
by tides for the last
ninety years.
Built in Glasgow,
this beached wreck dissolves
slowly in Port Adelaide mud.
My mind builds a...
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Categories:
boat, creation, imagination, sea,
Form: Free verse
Bad Buys and GoodbyesOld Barnacle Bob just bought a boat
The barnacled boat just didn't float
His wife preferred he bought her a coat
I'm leaving you Bob was all she wrote...
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Categories:
boat,
Form: Rhyme
MemesI'll keep it with the hi and bye
and silly little text message memes
the things you think are cute
but have no value to me
since substance ain't your thing
then I'll continue...
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Categories:
boat, cat, day, dog,
Form: Free verse
ABANDONEDABANDONED
Standing here by the empty dock
Cruise ship sailed, maybe an hour ago
I readily admit that I was a little late
But I somehow knew it wouldn’t wait
The correct berth the cab didn’t know
And without my...
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Categories:
adventure, boat,
Form: Rhyme
End of Voyage TableauTwo mighty boats beached
End of voyage reached
Captains’ judgement call
Rust consumes them all
Run aground and caught
Well-laid plans for naught
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Categories:
beach, boat, confusion, loss,
Form: Verse
Abandoned Tableau
Abandoned at sea,
dismantled, wasted-
carcasses of ships
join the huge graveyard
on Shipwreck Beach shore-
battling waves no more.
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Categories:
boat, death,
Form: Verse
Specific Types of Boat Poems
Definition | What is Boat in Poetry?
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