HUMAN OCEAN
...If I was an Ocean
Tour my calm waves and feel the balmy breezes
Become at ease
Far and wide would be my waters
Water of reflections and see through bottoms
Breathless Visions would be what my oc...
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Categories:
boaters, adventure, appreciation, beauty, boat,
Form: Free verse
The Story of Lily
...This is Lily she is a delicate and beautiful lotus, she is really something to look at.Lily is also very strong, and can withstand the elements.Lily is very well rooted in the p...
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Categories:
boaters, beautiful, character, courage, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Indian Lake Boat Ramp
...Today we stopped at Subway
and grabbed our favorite subs, chips and drinks
then headed to a picnic table
across the lake from the boat ramp
our favorite spot to watch boaters
set their boat...
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Categories:
boaters, animal, fun,
Form: Free verse
Unbuttoned English
...Without a standard argument
What are we ?
To juggle truth from lies
Remember your smooth sojourn
to Bath
The needless woe
of incensed rage
trumble the Lilies
cheer the Oxford boaters
oh t...
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Categories:
boaters, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Round Valley Reservoir
...Let’s go visit the Bermuda Triangle of New Jersey someone said.
The place where many missing boaters are found enormously dead.
Twenty-six people have disappeared in the lake, according to the mass...
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Categories:
boaters, mystery, water,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of the Harecastle Tunnel
...The moon shone on the water
Dyed ochre by the iron mines.
Centuries of men have toiled
In trenches and in chines.
Carving through the sheer rock face
To tunnel under hills
Canals to link the...
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Categories:
boaters, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Boat Ride II
...Boat Ride II
Upon the crowded deck, boaters go their way
Drifting silently among sunken glades
Where sun kissed ripples on sparkling waters play.
'Tween quiet banks th...
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Categories:
boaters, environment, nature, pollution, river,
Form: Terza Rima
The Lost River-Driver, Part I
...It was a century ago
when Joe Gibbs’ rode the water’s flow,
driving logs through the river’s waves,
a young man only twenty years,
fast with a pick-pole, had no fear,
and never had they seen a m...
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Categories:
boaters, death, heaven, history, nature,
Form: Narrative
Beneath the Waves
...It lies within a long valley,
amongst rolling Green Mountain Peaks,
its southern Vermont’s largest lake,
a place boaters and partiers seek.
But nature did not build this lake,
that task fell t...
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Categories:
boaters, appreciation, change, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Boat
...I like to think of family by visualizing a boat
with one family all together as on the sea they float.
Every family’s boat is different in size and shape and form
It’s a place where we learn of ...
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Categories:
boaters, family, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Bermuda Triangle
...Bermuda Triangle
This event was terrifyingly true,
Out in Atlantic, on the ocean blue.
It was ‘81, after we left Fort Lauderdale,
Hoping for happy Bahamas vacation tale
Aboard chartered sailbo...
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Categories:
boaters, mystery, night, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely Day
...Lovely days are what I dream for
Every single day
Lovely days are going for walks
And stumbling across little things that make me smile
Like beautiful flowers
Lovely days are getting up
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Categories:
boaters, love,
Form: Free verse
The Man Who Rode Champ, Part I
...If you’ve been to north New York,
or the western side of Vermont,
you might’ve head of a sea monster,
the vast Lake Champlain is his haunt.
The locals all call him ‘Champy,’
not to dissimilar ...
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Categories:
boaters, adventure, animal, crazy, drink,
Form: Narrative
A Water Scene
...High mountains reaching upward
Trying to touch the fluffy clouds
Evergreen trees below these mountains
On the other side the same view
The lake is very calm and clear
Boaters rowing enjoying the...
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Categories:
boaters, boat, mountains, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Crystal Blue Waters
...crystal blue waters twinkling away,
a thousand gems sparkle and sway,
fish jumping high with incredible joy,
a feeding frenzy and not being coy,
children skimming stones across
wanting to win an...
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Categories:
boaters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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