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Lifebuoy Poems - Poems about Lifebuoy

Premium Member Keeping on Course
... "There's a river meandering through the mind" It flows like a torrent, so often I find My thoughts when they bank up, and reach breaking point A deep breath is needed before all is spoilt. Th......

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Categories: lifebuoy, river,
Form: Rhyme
There's More That Falls Below the Iceberg
...Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty? My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses But any attention means so much to me We’re going in circles, But feel free to say yo......

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Categories: lifebuoy, absence, extended metaphor, friend,
Form: Free verse



Emotional Whiplash
...One day, Brad felt overwhelmingly sad The next day Brad was raging mad Following this day, Brad was feeling glad This was the best day that Brad had had One day, Suzy had been crying all day lo......

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Categories: lifebuoy, anxiety, care, community, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Time Flies
...When time flies, feelings of euphoria, spur jaw-dropping habitus within, vision of nirvana on groundswell earth, chirping bird amber tone on hedgerow, cacophony that piercing aural backdrop, rio......

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Categories: lifebuoy, beautiful, beauty, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Gotta Laugh So I Don'T Cry
...When twist-and-turns, like narrow mount-roads, I face, When deaths of kith, like winds in fall, bring disgrace; When my cries, like waves of oceans, surge endless, I laugh, serving the orphan an......

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Categories: lifebuoy, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Close Quarter Riddle
...In the light of autumn skies, one might sense this blind turbulent endeavour, raptures veering like some wanton thunderstorm, behind dark moon frost allure, amber leaf vortex among bemused grey c......

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Categories: lifebuoy, beautiful, beauty, birth, color,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Poetry
...A poem is a conduit, Like a cable or a wire. It just provides a pathway To communicate, inspire. A way to share our inner self Our psyche or our soul Those feelings that we can’t express ......

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Categories: lifebuoy, emotions, pain, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
A Confession Rnli
...A confession I was a young 15 year old and I had had a few concordes , cheap white wine . Whilst I was walking home back to the house on the hill over looking the Fowey Estuary , I saw a lifebu......

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Categories: lifebuoy, care, childhood, drink, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Noteworthy Ship
...for far too long now he had bottled up his emotions stuck reason to his wavelength and built an intricate structure in the glass bottle of his mind a real showpiece emerged craft......

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Categories: lifebuoy, beach,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fabulous Frailty
...not the banyan trees dried twigs hold the dragonflies often carefully few fallen feathers form firm foundations for Finch's fantastic furrow a leaf on waters becomes great lifebuoy for a ......

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Categories: lifebuoy, strength,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Roadside Poetry
...In my youth I was completely engrossed, By poetry along the byways nailed to a post! It wasn't composed by John Greenleaf Whittier; No, the authors were much more wittier! I speak of Burma Shave ......

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Categories: lifebuoy, humorous, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A View of the Fifties
...A view of the fifties lifebuoy, A soap a remember well on ships there was no other soap it had a strong masculine scent for those who didn't use Floyd aftershave. We seamen were a clean race a......

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Categories: lifebuoy, confidence, corruption, creation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Boy On Boat
...Help! Help! I am drowning What do you mean you can't swim Throw the lifebuoy, please......

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Categories: lifebuoy, 10th grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Floating On Empty
...'The storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret' It was surfers' paradise weather but he had only captured a dinghy Made from lost dreams and drift wood collected in s......

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Categories: lifebuoy, conflict, courage, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lifebuoy
...lifebuoy tossed attempted rescue from his own fate posted on November 5, 2018......

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Categories: lifebuoy, encouraging, fate, hope, life,
Form: Senryu

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