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Boatmen Poems - Poems about Boatmen

First Encounter
...Fierce winds blow across the Atlantic tide, Colder she gets the rougher she'll ride, In matt'r minutes a chill to the bone, Few dare sail her northern zone, Far north the whaling be done, Colder......

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Categories: boatmen, boat, fishing, imagery, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blissful Water
...Written: July 04, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ A respected river, your holiness sublime. Purifies within if we let your essence seep. From the......

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Categories: boatmen, analogy, appreciation, beauty, water,
Form: Rhyme



Lady of the Nile
...Beauteous lass Thy wounds are bleeding! Crowning crowning where thou go on? Mothers weep and babies feeding Crowds on crowds and trumpet blow on! Wearest thou thy wedding garments Then which......

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Categories: boatmen, beach, beautiful, dark, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Night In Paris
...spires stretch heavenward in a twilight sky crimson hues and nighttime blues do battle as people lope lazily over a dusky bridge like cattle with cameras; snapping the domed limestone giant be......

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Categories: boatmen, anniversary, devotion, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath Them Steady Waters Still Are Flowing
...During colder winters the river freezes over A vast sheet of ice spreading shore to shore While the traffic awaits March’s spring thaw, Old boatmen share traditional waterway lore And skaters......

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Categories: boatmen, boat, river, sports, winter,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member It Comes Without Trumpets
...It Comes Without Trumpets No fanfare, no golden light that we know of. It comes without a pale horse. Sometimes silent during the night, perhaps peaceful but perhaps not. No one knows the dr......

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Categories: boatmen, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Holy Ganga- Constanza
...Oh Ganga! river so revered your holiness purifies deep if thy essence we let in seep. From lord Shiva's hair you appeared down the mighty Himalayas quenching the thirsty souls pious. Yamuna......

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Categories: boatmen, river,
Form: Rhyme
Big Rocks
...On Jingxi River boatmen are very careful with big rocks found, No news about boat-capsizing is heard all the year round. But in smooth rivers where there are no dangerous rocks, Victims are often......

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Categories: boatmen, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Driftwood On the Styx
...Three misfits sought mischief along serenity shore when a boatman slashed through the bluing mist with driftwood oars honed by a river called Styx. They were wild and naive and looked quite agha......

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Categories: boatmen, adventure, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime
...wildflower meadow as tall as a muntjac cuckoo cuckooing - farmers haymaking grasshoppers stridulating don't touch a stinkbug - wood admiral glides honeysuckle its host plant humid t......

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Categories: boatmen, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
Harvey
...Harvey I sit in my chair Lovely music playing; Afternoon sun shining; Birds filling up to roost. I look out my sliding doors; The ferns are lush. I hear a baby cry, There is a......

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Categories: boatmen, loss, natural disasters, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Danny the Dolphin
...Danny the dolphin loved his next of kin, swimming in pods out in the big ocean, sensing danger he'd be the first to respond, helping humans to safety creating a special bond, Noticing that huma......

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Categories: boatmen, fish, ocean,
Form: Light Verse
The Reminiscence
...The green village, the colored city, the ever familiar locality Each path, tree, house, turn, each native I have left behind But creepers, hedges have entangled with my leg and hand The green crop......

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Categories: boatmen, birth, childhood, memory, youth,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Befuddled Brenda
...Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography, Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea, Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain, Broadsided by fiction now baking insane; Balanced betwe......

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Categories: boatmen, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Alliteration
Emerald Waves
...Emerald Waves emerald tides rise boatmen hold breath while tunnelled ......

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Categories: boatmen, ocean,
Form: Haiku

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