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Deckhand Poems - Poems about Deckhand


Premium Member Enjoy The Good Days
... True happiness resides within each of us We alone are responsible for our own well being It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events But the bottom line is, we're the one......

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Categories: deckhand, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Purple Reign
...There is no plum-colored ermine trimmed cloak to be worn, and no one's pen is a royal scepter which gems will adorn. Poets are just ordinary people whose creations are born from their......

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Categories: deckhand, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme



Is He a Poofter
...Is he a Poofter? I was reading “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser reading slowly because the writer proceeded slowly in his writing It was eleven at night; I was going to bed when I had ......

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Categories: deckhand, anger, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Looking For Something
...I am an old man a deep well an epoch marriage a raven haired beauty five above average kids Orion deckhand and cook teacher of the year Bible study leader jail preacher song worship leader ......

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Categories: deckhand, journey, old,
Form: Free verse
Albatross
...I see it now flying low over silver-spumed waves. I am a watcher I can enlarge the picture zoom in look into bright midnight eyes as if it were I that propelled it. Sprea......

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Categories: deckhand, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Death of a Young Man
...Death of a young man There is a schooner in the bay flags on half mast a crew member had fallen from the top of the mast and since the ship had no freezer he had been buried at sea. This remind......

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Categories: deckhand, absence, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Ballad of Edward Kenway
...Edward Kenway was a pirate He sailed the Spanish Main He plundered British merchant ships And the Galleons of Spain Once he was a farmer He walked behind the plough But now he ploughed the oc......

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Categories: deckhand, adventure, courage, leadership, war,
Form: Ballad
Umbrella
...The Umbrella It was a rainy sort Of afternoon, when I crossed The bridge didn`t notice Half it was missing. Held on to my brolly when I fell Parachuted landed on a barge. They needed a deck......

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Categories: deckhand, adventure, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Maselimbo
...Masalembo 2016 © Fleetwood Blue-green ocean tipped with whitecaps rolling toward the shore Plane is humming with the pilot talking about life and your ride is there parked on the hill for easy......

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Categories: deckhand, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ahoy, Matey
...Ahoy, matey! Welcome aboard me ship, Me would have met ye at the airport But, I've got meself a broken hip. Me crew, they be drunk Me parrot's got the sh!ts, Me wooden leg got c......

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Categories: deckhand, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enjoy the Good Days
...True happiness resides within each of us We alone are responsible for our own well being It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events But the bottom line is, we're the o......

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Categories: deckhand, happiness,
Form: Narrative
The Pregnant Sailor's Wife
...Thar be me captain The leader of my crew. He is a mighty man Bold, Strong, and True. I be his shipmate The cook, swab, and crew. I am but his deckhand Loving, Affectionate, and True. In m......

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Categories: deckhand, funnyme,
Form: Prose Poetry

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