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Gangplank Poems - Poems about Gangplank


Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......

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Categories: gangplank, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Pirate’s Lament
...When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold Might he tak......

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Categories: gangplank, sea,
Form: Rhyme



And Many Thought
...AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago? When as a young person you grew In what we considered was times of uncertainty so, ......

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Categories: gangplank, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Can One Know
...How can one know, if it's possibly the real deal? Able to see through layers, Without having to peel. Birds will fly and play, around him this very day. Teaching those who are inside or parked,......

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Categories: gangplank, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where My Thoughts Took Me Today
... Where My Thoughts Took Me Today 2/17/2018 Tom Wright Lying supine in bed and deprived of sleep, I face another morning my mind most blank. Adverse thoughts disrupt my counting sheep......

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Categories: gangplank, jobs, work,
Form: Lyric



Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1
...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.) Sleek of line for speedy sailing It was rugged in construction Several layers of well cured timber Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales There were four ......

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Categories: gangplank, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
An Actors Life
...An Actor`s life My life as an artist lasted long although no one saw me acting only that my behaviour changed if I had read a book and liked the hero in it, or seen a western movie; became that p......

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Categories: gangplank, absence, , western,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member You Had a Bird In Hand
...You had a bird in hand your boat was right there at your pier with your name on it all the accouterments were at your fingertips there was nothing to do but jump aboard it was that easy o......

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Categories: gangplank, beauty, perspective, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Belle of the Balls
...Belle of the Balls A Fairy Tale Once upon a time in a mythical land, there lived a beautiful young Ball named Belle Rolle. She was perfect i......

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Categories: gangplank, fantasy, children,
Form: Narrative
Terri Loves a Ferry Ride
...Young Terri loved a ferry ride, She rode it all the time, She'd put the money in the slot To ride the ferry line. The ferry rose up and down Upon the harbour wave, Sometimes she'd hear the fo......

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Categories: gangplank, education, children, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Cabin-Beginnings
...Sighing, he shouldered the old duffle bag And followed others as they sauntered down the gangway Free at last, from the ship's cramped and stench-filled quarters, He smiled, at the crisp, fresh and b......

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Categories: gangplank, adventure, cowboy-western, people, old,
Form: Rhyme
Liberty Port
...We strained, Well taut, All mooring lines to port, Tying alongside Oriskiny, Then lowered gangplank, Riding on the pier. Mail Call! Sounds the 1-MC Perfumed letters all, From the One I Lo......

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Categories: gangplank, sea,
Form: Free verse

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