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Kicked Through
...Knock knock I kept knocking at addictions door Each knock feeling as if only they were knocked Days turned to weeks with little to no progress I kept knocking at the door so well locked Failu......

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Categories: landlocked, addiction, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healing of Joshua Tree
...Some may look to distant Mars among radiant stars. Get to the desert, you'll find more much nearer ours. Nearer than any man knows. Ancestral, celestial bones, secret kept in Mojave's bota......

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Categories: landlocked, freedom, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Slow Boat To China
...I was born in a landlocked getaway town Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown. Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down. It was not in my future to stay. So, I took a long walk off......

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Categories: landlocked, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shopping Center Sailors
...A leisurely coffee, conversation that barely makes it across the table before slipping back into silence, shapes passing by shadowed in the blurr of their growing distance. They gather at te......

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Categories: landlocked, memory, men, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted By the Call of the Sea
...‘She was haunted by the call of the sea; Wishing to dive forever stay under. ‘ Truly that woman has always been me, Dying to wake from a landlocked slumber.......

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Categories: landlocked, dream, emotions, sea,
Form: Quatrain



Everywhere Comes Back To Me
...My travelling shoes got up early, they had hydraulic jump-starts. Countries spun my head around while I discovered lands only Albatross dream of in a limitless sky. Across many countries ......

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Categories: landlocked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
We Are Not Islands : May 2016
...We are not islands We of the islands of N and Z placed together There are three of us If we were islands We would lie in the sea Sunbathing Waves would lap over us Playfully tickle our sandy......

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Categories: landlocked, appreciation, beach, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One-Eye Jake
...Their youngest boy, they call him one-eye Jake He was as means as a black mamba snake Cursed like a landlocked sailor Took a job as a county jailor Made all the money a good thief can make. wr......

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Categories: landlocked, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Afghanistan
...At the remote crossroads of Central and South Asia Fostering pre-history vestiges as landlocked country Gathered the dust of the famous ancient silk route Hibernated lo......

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Categories: landlocked, history, islamic, war,
Form: Acrostic
September Moorings
...Slips marked and mapped across the intercoastal waterways a scanning breached out of high low tidal waves, silent, still, obscure, and not well hidden liveaboards hold steady isolated sheltered ......

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Categories: landlocked, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Afghanistan
...How interesting. A contest about Afghanistan. Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy ......

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Categories: landlocked, america, military, political, soldier,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Stand I Stepped In An Aquatic Spillway of a Dream Lake-
...I STAND I STEPPED IN AN AQUATIC SPILLWAY OF A DREAM LAKE Dream lake head waters Thing of lacquer Engaging lacquering Full of shallows Silent lac I stand I stepp......

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Categories: landlocked, analogy, appreciation, engagement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Shipwrecks
...My people are shipwrecks, they have faces long crushed by tanks. Many are landlocked, a few were too oceanic they got broken by dry-docked hearts. Most were blitzed by smokescreens. The trees......

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Categories: landlocked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landlocked
...Longing for the sea, the foam soaking my hair; Longing for the breeze, to carry my song on the air; For gills and a tail I’d gladly give this life; Longing for the day I don’t have to come ......

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Categories: landlocked, dream, fantasy, feelings, sea,
Form: Free verse
Friday Night Lights
...Faster than a precipitous squall, ivy spreads and climbs the wall.  It's quarried a landlocked structure in Nepal. Through the cracks wails an ominous battlefield call. The preamble of turnacets tied......

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Categories: landlocked, allegory, emotions, evil, life,
Form: Prose

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