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Coxswain Poems - Poems about Coxswain


Premium MemberRhythm of a River

...Nette Onclaud, Rolling with the R’s, 8/4/2025

Rhythm of a River

rambling
   funny waters,
      downward rapidity
         of laughter on white water raft.
uninte...
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Categories: coxswain, river,
Form: Rictameter

Premium MemberAs We Metamorphose

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Written: May 23, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker

Line of inquiry:

“Being mistook, we burnt the book
thoughts rest, we dwell in our heart’s nest
touched by spirit, our b...
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Categories: coxswain, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe coxswain calls the cadence

...The coxswain calls the cadence
…I don’t like his tone
But I am forced to listen
Cuz he’s got the megaphone

I think my oar is twisted
As it defies my wishes
It hits the water making
Loud spla...
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Categories: coxswain, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberImmaculate Spirit

...Written: November 03, 2023
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Pristine his soul and tamed to the core,
Who was semaphored by a sloping wave?
He escaped the saf...
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Categories: coxswain, analogy, appreciation, ocean, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEnticing Twilight

...Written: October 10, 2023   
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in ...
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Categories: coxswain, analogy, appreciation, dream, night,
Form: Rhyme



The Curious Coxswain

...The death of ego
With its many faces
 that seek to limit and define

Awaken from a self imposed slumber
Listening to the hushed sounds
Of the authentic voice of mine

Your observation a moot ...
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Categories: coxswain, august, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Coxswain

...I see a weary coxswain
That steers a crooked boat
Across a  sea of madness
With endless empty hope

He searches for a memory
Of what was just a dream
In clouds of misty mayhem
And...
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Categories: coxswain, sad,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberPen Am Expression Airplane

...*Image of Make A Paper Airplane by YT.

Pen Am Expression Airplane

Welcome, all writers and riders on board,
Pen Am Expression Toss-N-Throw Jetways,
Piloting, Captain Armstrong Pap...
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Categories: coxswain, crazy, creation, fun, kid,
Form: Free verse

Earthling Bewails Hoovering World Wide Dread

...Accursed human species
case in point Vladimir Putin,
who strikes terror across globe.

Don't underestimate his hell bent
zeal to attack United States,
one blood sucking infernal
predacious Hom...
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Categories: coxswain, abuse, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Those Who Died

...MEMORIAL DAY

          THOSE WHO DIED

    My daddy served till I was six.
    A Navy man he loved his ship.

    Rejecting hero he would proclaim.
   "Those who died should have that name."...
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Categories: coxswain, memorial day,
Form: Free verse

Homage To Walt Sing Matt Tilde

...~ Homage to Walt Sing Matt Tilde ~

The art of the
     "FAKE" deal (according
     to Walt Dizzy Take a Knee Sing
     Matt Tilde) once again
as oft iterated in previous poems,
     doth (sou...
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Categories: coxswain, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

An Open Letter To a Trafficker

...Dear trafficker,I am on the run
With face emitting fear
Worn in clothe surged into rag
By the scissors of rape
linen scars
With the screech from angry nails;
narrow escape.

Do not ask why I ...
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Categories: coxswain, angst,
Form: Lyric

Anger a Crime 4

...Anger only emotion acts like a Coxswain
In letting one to proceed to detain
One’s personality in public and explain
Debility of his character; and retain
Idiosyncratic nature to volplane
Into da...
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Categories: coxswain, anger, , cute,
Form: Monorhyme

The Coxswain

...Rendition from the third degree,  
writers lost in euphoric decrees
blocked, what's happening to me
lost in the "I don't knows"
the articles such as A, The, Thou
& prepositions.
What next?,
Wh...
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Categories: coxswain, america, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry

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