my wolf head bulkhead
...If I was a pirate ship my bulkhead would be a wolf’s head
With yellow eyes that rolled around scaring my enemies all red
They would begin screaming when my ship came over the rise
Knowing at the e...
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Categories:
bulkhead, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Long Ago
...Long ago a star twinkled
Across the ocean blue
It pierced my heart so
Recklessly I fell in love with you
Stranger from afar
Ghostly and unknown
Words that trapped my soul
Tethered and unwor...
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Categories:
bulkhead, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Fear's Leash
...Fear leashes unforeseen harpoons
when faith flees to the hold.
Wind gauges possible typhoons,
purser murmurs threefold...
fractures in the bulkhead
sailors...
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Categories:
bulkhead, 11th grade, anxiety, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Queen of the Ocean, Titanic
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Let me tell you a story . . .
The RMS Titanic steamship was the largest
and most magnificent ship in the world (at the time)
high as an 11 story building
and long as 4 "long" city bloc...
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Categories:
bulkhead, history,
Form: Narrative
Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of Wine
...A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog.
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman
Strains to see beyond the wheel.
The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan.
It’s his ...
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Categories:
bulkhead, adventure, sea,
Form: Ballad
Agemo - the Goddess of Forms
...Hoary Decree, dateless Order,
Anthroposophy of the cradle,
Bewilderment of upper echelon,
Agemo - the goddess of forms.
You are the word, you utter not any;
You are the history, you tell no t...
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Categories:
bulkhead, africa, god,
Form: Verse
A Book of Soul For the Heartwarmer
...One individual called "she" stepped into the sheets of a life story
Sheets that used to be occupied
She walked back and stopped at a chapter which tell the story of an obsolete chamber
A space which ...
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Categories:
bulkhead, life, thank you, uplifting,
Form: Prose Poetry
Arthur Homer "homie" Creed
...Oh the glory! Of this my story
Upon a colossal, metallic beast
Did I sail, for many a year
Every ocean and sea, seemed the vastness of eternity
My name is Arthur Homer Creed, AKA -“Homie”
Chie...
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Categories:
bulkhead, sea
Form: Epic
Cheph 111: Chapter 6ix
...CHEPH 111: Chapter 6IX
The Matron IOLA
She was frowning at the bulkhead “How does this THING even Fly?”
It looks just like a giant dandYlion seed released into the wind.
The “Amaryllis Two” just ...
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Categories:
bulkhead, water, water,
Form: Free verse