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Coastguard Poems - Poems about Coastguard


Premium Member Runner
...           The V12 purred as the fireboat ran easy outpaced the coastguard man       this time;     last time, bullets blazed     so what; the price was raised   waiting on the rum line for a g......

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Categories: coastguard, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Coastguard
... Above the choppy, viewed from behind the glassy winded and floppy. He observes the flossy dark black rolling white and frothy. Salt filtered manes blown acrossy limpits rocky trapping ......

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Categories: coastguard, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lighthouse Keeper
...Lighthouse keeper vacancy announced Envelope delivered; contents read aloud A smile turned into laughter, then into a shout Parents and Son hugged before he set off. Applicants sitting quietly,......

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Categories: coastguard, adventure, career, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
...In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne' La......

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Categories: coastguard, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Lost In Paradise
...You speak ambiguous as if a metaphor with a double meaning, creating sights and sounds closely matching yet differently. As if a the sun were in your smile or a fire burning in your soul, our love......

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Categories: coastguard, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
...They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. From the 107th psalm It......

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Categories: coastguard, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
No Heart
...1/28/19 "No Heart" Studied a flowchart Then opened a letter with postmarks Is a slow start Better than having no part? Everybody thinks they're so smart A divided world continuing to grow apar......

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Categories: coastguard, dedication, fun, poetry, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Sailing To America
...Leaving the dock, sounding the bells Captain at stern, strong water swells Winds give rise, full ahead call Clear blue sky, no noted squall. Boston harbor hosting, ships are notable Schooners ......

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Categories: coastguard, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lifeboat Man
...It was two in the morning when I heard the beep And jumped out of bed because I couldn't sleep I got dressed In two minutes then got into my car Then drove to the harbour which wasn't very f......

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Categories: coastguard, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Gone Fishing Part Two
...They slowed the boat so they could hear, if any other craft came near, when suddenly out of the gloom, appeared the harbinger of their doom. A ship so huge they could not steer, beyond the bow so hi......

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Categories: coastguard, death, family, fear, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Weighty Problem
...The little thrill as the wave’s ripple in Making the hairs stand up, on the surface of my skin. The kiss of the sun with its warm breath so light As it soothes my skin with warmth and delight. The sa......

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Categories: coastguard, funny, water, sun, water,
Form: Light Verse
Sos Coastguard
...The best bildge pump is A scared man with a bucket In a sinking boat......

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Categories: coastguard, funny
Form: Haiku
Premium Member When Old Veterans Get Together
...When old vets gather at a pub to reminisce with their peers, And their tongues are mellowed with a few free-flowing beers, Raucous war stories and much back slapping are apt to befall, As unique p......

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Categories: coastguard, nostalgiawar, war,
Form: Rhyme
Storm Alert Haiku Number 23
...Purple black skies hang Over mountainous sea's surge Coastguard hears Mayday......

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Categories: coastguard, nature
Form: Haiku

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