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Cargo Hold Poems - Poems about Cargo Hold

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David Cherry
...His dad was a Commercial Traveller Who went to work in a suit and tie Didn’t have that weathered complexion From daily working under open sky. They lived last house in Mill Row The village schoo......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, childhood, friend, in memoriam,
Form: Rhyme



A Grave In Istanbul
...A grave in Istanbul He fell down the cargo hold, a long fall the hold’s floor was made of wood and lessened the brutal slam when he hit bottom. He got up, waved to us and climbed the iron- th......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, blue, devotion, september,
Form: Ballade
The Poet Is the Ship's Captain
...the poet is the ship's Captain the story is about the sea sailed upon a tale beneath in the cargo hold at times the most tranquil of waters filled with benign waves become walks along Elysian pa......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, analogy, appreciation, celebration, extended
Form: Free verse
The Transferable Tourist
...The transferable tourist The old ship striped like a rusty zebra one, that has survived the big storms and attacked by sea monsters how she still floated was a mystery. From one obscure port to......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, best friend, confidence, heartbroken,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Root Cause
...THE ROOT CAUSE "Rhosus; O' how you wished you never sailed into the port of Beirut" "There was no need for the ship Rhosus to be ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, allegory, truth,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Deep Roots of Racism
...When God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect, But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect, Soon thereafter sin manifested itself as envy, hatred, ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Time Encapsulated Pain
... My melanin bar code pain feels like a time encapsulated link chain The future and the past are excruciatingly one and the same And this bleak present is probable cause tense — Just be......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, discrimination, sorrow, truth, violence,
Form: Narrative
Buy Product Crash
... Auto Pilate is carrion klaxon blaring a false viral alert The warning signal says cadavers don’t vote: “Let not your lying eyes believe this smear currency contagious hoax” With p......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, death, sick, trust, world,
Form: Tristich
Three-Fifth Soul
... It’s a terrible thing to be treated as less than human ... all should abhor Considered only as beast of burden — that’s the lying end of it, nothing more Iron yoke was our neck collar......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, angst, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Once Upon the Green Sea
...Once upon a time I was, it seems like 100 years ago, on an old fashion cargo ship, the carried all sorts from potatoes, flour, machine parts, plastic flowers, and tinned fruit, meat, and hats ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, blue, boxing day , bridal
Form: Blank verse
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
... Here’s the thing ... needful truth of an urgent matter Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem: Dark Age Crusaders of Hate say the right color is on the genetic wrong side of ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, conflict, hate, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Rubbed the Wrong Way
... We always gotta give America her ego massage Put cucumber visions in her eyes, gentle finger her a comforting mirage Lady Liberty likes you to give her a righteous back rub Tell her ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, abuse, perspective, prejudice, truth,
Form: Narrative
Ankle Bracelets
... Clink-clink Black panther eyes peering thru the concrete canopy What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ... safari sound waves shocking, moving the ghetto leaves What do t......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, culture, metaphor, slavery, truth,
Form: Narrative
A Ghetto Conversation
... Hey bruh, haven’t you heard, ain’t you read the news? The White House is gonna eradicate the fear infested inner city blues That Trump fella says, he’s got his poison pen ready ......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, culture, prejudice, truth, word
Form: Verse
Napalm Rain
... Deadly chemicals parked in the cargo hold of an American military plane Destination: the jungles of Vietnam Guerillas in the mist ... communism with an Asian face is on the uptick It'......Read the rest...
Categories: cargo hold, death, pain, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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