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Fore And Aft Poems - Poems about Fore And Aft

Premium Member A Day in a Fly's life
...In a corner of my room, where shadows dance so shy, Lived a tiny little fly, beneath the crescent moon's eye. Not a creature of grandeur or a beast of fright, But a simple being, basking in the tw......

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Categories: fore and aft, insect,
Form: Narrative
The Good Ship Venus Updated
...The Captain had a penny whistle Which he wore around his neck And he played it every morning As the crew danced on the deck. Sometimes it was a Hornpipe Sometimes a Palais Glide As the crew da......

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Categories: fore and aft, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Christmas Wish List
...I Wishes that you find peace, the Hebrew Shalom For it includes well-being, being WHOLE-some One need not have religion when one has Shalom So my deepest desire this Covid year, for everyone To ......

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Categories: fore and aft, africa, america, analogy, community,
Form: Blank verse
Life's Stormy Seas
...First one wave and then another Tossed the boat from one side then the other The storm gripped the tiny craft and the wind pushed the sail fore and aft. While in the stern the Lord lay on ......

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Categories: fore and aft, christian, encouraging, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme
Central Park Companions
...Met some friends in Central Park, A meeting overdue. How wonderful to see them And catch up on all that’s new! We strolled around the reservoir Then found a place to sit – A shady bench wit......

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Categories: fore and aft, new york,
Form: Rhyme



The Finger
...We're on the highway, middle lane; Some motorcycles pass. The car in front slows down; my husband Presses on the gas And eases left, right in the midst Of Harleys fore and aft, Not knowing t......

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Categories: fore and aft, car, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Writer's Prayer
...I like to think that poetry has intrinsic value above and beyond the actual craft… That the origins of poetry’s meter and rhyme precede each preliminary draft… That something, perhaps......

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Categories: fore and aft, humorous, imagery, metaphor, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Pinged Pong
...My eager man bought me a wee thong which I put on to best get along but rubbing bugging attacks soon whacked my fore and aft crack. My pinged pong found his dingdonged thong wrong....

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Categories: fore and aft, body, boyfriend, clothes, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Staring Fore and Aft
... Staring Fore and Aft By: Tom Wright 5/12/03] We oft stare hinder, knowing that there, lurks only time spent. We embrace in thought those days without birth, while probing their exi......

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Categories: fore and aft, future, time,
Form: Free verse
Airship
...Airship How far I’ve flown I neither know nor care. Much as this open deck my plans are bare. Of star or compass I have nary need, But follow as these downy cloud tops lead. The chilly breez......

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Categories: fore and aft, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Body Casting
...Body Casting Standing there naked for all to stare Or is it a pleasure to share The days when before Your body took a different shape and more. A way of remembering the time When pregnancy ......

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Categories: fore and aft, abortion, beautiful, body, woman,
Form: Couplet
Odyssey From Africa 11f
...Chapter 11 The Island Kingdom (f, continued...) Near the north-most cape they passed, there Lay the kingdom’s foremost city By the name of Cannabarro Here was found the royal palace Of Ptole......

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Categories: fore and aft, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Descry
...Descry The schooner sailed upon the sea Creating whispered waves below I stood close by the crimson bow In stillness near the quiet dawn with no distractions save for gulls The fore and aft......

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Categories: fore and aft,
Form: Free verse
Till Luna's Eye Is Met
...Her blinding boon kills Deer of old and waxes swan beset; down this cold rain of blue eyes sold till Luna's eye is met. Cool yet wan, O whispering breeze, bloom dreams from withered skies: a......

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Categories: fore and aft, dark, happiness, longing, sick,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Heaven Can Wait
...Dawn breaks ruby red, windy day in sight. Sailors scorning its warning, grab a bite Pack their gear, rush to yacht, hoist sails upright. Sea weathered mates, love to join the fight Against wi......

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Categories: fore and aft, sea,
Form: Monorhyme

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