Long Offshore Poems
Long Offshore Poems. Below are the most popular long Offshore by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Offshore poems by poem length and keyword.
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
offshore, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
A Harvest Quartet of Subtle HarmonicsSpring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their boats
at each dawn and dusk's onshore brought home each day's...
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Categories:
offshore, farm, love, science, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
offshore, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Row HousesNewfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond.
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.
If you wants to...
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Categories:
offshore, courage, funny, hero, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
Big Fish Calling Me To the Sea Part 1My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to see
My spirit is calling me to fly over the big...
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Categories:
offshore, abuse, adventure, devotion, encouraging, environment, fish, fishing,
Form:
Narrative
Mating of the Rich and FamousI once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...
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Categories:
offshore, animal, beauty, cat, dance, love, nature,
Form:
Prose
The Raven Has Fled“The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool”
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With...
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Categories:
offshore,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Where the Money IsI circled around the park three times and continue journeying towards the west
On my first cycle I met a couple sitting on the corner watching me like big brother
The young man shouted at me in...
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Categories:
offshore, betrayal, corruption, education, endurance, environment, father daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Alaska, the Last FrontierAlaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates the landscape.
The name Alaska originates
From the Aleut word ‘Aleyska,’
Meaning the ‘mainland’ or...
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Categories:
offshore, celebration, culture, education, history, symbolism, tribute, usa,
Form:
Verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
offshore, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Four O ClockEveryone has his four o’clock there is no doubt about that
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he wears a cowboy’s hat
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he roams around in a...
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Categories:
offshore, autumn, character, community, corruption, destiny, encouraging, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13thHarriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
offshore, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Year Was 1945I didn't know where this was going when I started with the title. The following is where it went:
The Year Was 1945
(now it's 2020)
By Franklin Price
08/15/2020
The year was 1945 the greatest war was done.
When...
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Categories:
offshore, america, appreciation, corruption, political, war,
Form:
Couplet
Cliff*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...
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Categories:
offshore, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form:
Couplet
Let It Begin With MeI remember being a Narcissist was bad form when I young ...
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Categories:
offshore, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
offshore, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
Odyssey From Africa 11dOdyssey from Africa, Chapter 11 (d) cont...
Thus the boarding of the parties
Was a speedy operation
Very soon the whole flotilla
Sailed toward the open ocean
This wide bay from which the ships set
Sail is called the...
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Categories:
offshore, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, sea, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Calcivore, Part II.
Zack stared out on the Indian Ocean
through which the adventure cruise made its way,
they were near the famed Andaman Islands,
and would probably reach them the next day.
He’d paid extra cash to come out this way,
to...
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Categories:
offshore, adventure, animal, dark, death, horror, military, scary,
Form:
Narrative
ScornedI breathe deeply,
Take a long blank,
Look into the night sky,
Ironically clear as day,
I Inhale.
The air is heated,
Smoke rising,
Sirens in the distance,
I don't care,
I blur it all out,
I feel it ,
Seeping,
Into my very soul,
I feel the...
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Categories:
offshore, betrayal, crazy, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Silver Lining Sought Amidst Coronavirus Covid 19 OnslaughtSilver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught
Two hundred and forty six plus months
into twenty first century celeb
and anonymous folks alike
gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb
buckle fishtailed, looped, roughed up...
wreaks/wrought havoc across world wide web.
As a secular...
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Categories:
offshore, 12th grade, april, blessing, caregiving, daughter, father,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 12d, 13aChapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.)
As they held their breath and waited
For a flame to catch the fire flowers
Finally a smoky ribbon
Drifted upwards from the petals
Gradually the flowers smouldered
And a filmy smoke ascended
With an aromatic odour
As...
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Categories:
offshore, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 1aChapter 1 THE FISHERMAN
At the dawn of humankind in
Africa's great land of sunlight
This adventure of survival
Of a family's arduous journey
One of exile and betrayal
And of hopeful brave endurance
Happened long before all...
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Categories:
offshore, adventure, africa, history, humanity, identity, mythology, world,
Form:
Narrative
Environmental PollutionThe release of the naked sword of marine oil spills
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.
Petroleum hydrocarbon spreading its tentacle...
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Categories:
offshore, africa, earth, environment, humanity, poems, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Once I Was Prince - Part Onefor Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)
Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
timber and stone
of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...
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Categories:
offshore, family, day, me,
Form:
Free verse
Bottle DanceBOTTLE DANCE
Across my land, abysses gnaw at automobiles,
From the foot of the mountain,
To the shores of the oil fountain.
Certificated youths drinking piss to mellow their brains,
Clutching at wheels, dodging bumps into fog lights.
“Stupid, ing...
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Categories:
offshore, absence, anger, freedom, history,
Form:
Blank verse