Metaphor Boat Poems

Lost upon the waves,
Ship splinters 'neath storm's fury,
Sky merges with sea.
Island sands embrace my plight—
Hope blooms in the heart of night....

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. . . Elementary 

Little Wrinkled Nose -- The 

Way We Like It . . ....

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Over white waters, a vessel
She goes dipping and bobbing,
'Cross the deep blue trestle
Her captain nearly sobbing

Hands at the helm
Still, she does not steer,
Just navigates this...

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Daddy, there are new moorings, come see!
There are shiny pontoon chains and cables,
braided ropes and colorful pennants.
The anchors and piles and buoys all new!

He arose...

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Moorings anew are easy as thought,
Vessels tethered, fixed as weather,
By an anchor, a person, or an idea,
Sure to shore up evidence of defense, of itself.

With...

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Life is like waves or problem 
Coming together with issues;
Difficult to predict or slam;

Hard to enjoy the sound of  the drum
When the captain of the...

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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You walk in beauty like darkness begs the eve for light
You walk straight through it like the sun shining bright

You show grace like grand royalty
All...

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Boat over the water
             crossed unused days
      ...

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Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy

Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often, 
feel stressful

Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self...

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standing on the bow
life always commands a boat
that never will sink...

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A man attracted to the sound of waves
Ended up to live in the lighthouse
Since then
His job is to hang the things
Floating in the ocean

At this...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Jesus Savior...Pilot Me from walkinginsunlight.com



Across the blackest waters 
ripples of pain,
swell into an anguish splashing 
against the blackest shore, 
and in the rustling of brittle...

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The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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