Long Shipshape Poems

Long Shipshape Poems. Below are the most popular long Shipshape by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shipshape poems by poem length and keyword.


Monofilamania

It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.

It sharks, 
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...

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© Jack Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shipshape, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form: Free verse


Please come join me in spirit if not in body

Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption 
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of  hours 
before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery - 
drawing...

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Categories: shipshape, absence, animal, autumn, celebration, friendship, happiness, peace,
Form: Free verse

Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga

Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 

crafted when Wallace and Gromit 
returned from their trip to the moon, 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – 
as cheesy poem...

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Categories: shipshape, adventure, age, animal, blue, character, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga

Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!

Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the most inconvenient
opportunities such as...

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Categories: shipshape, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Espousing Irreverent Greed

Espousing irreverent greed

Crafted one year ago today
yours truly – hopefully self plagiarism okay
worse case scenario, 
I would meet ill fate re: kenway
named after Assassin Creed 
Black Flag's protagonist. 

"Yo, I totally Kenwayed that guy." 
by...

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Categories: shipshape, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, conflict, divorce,
Form: Rhyme


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Undefeated, a Boxing Lesson

UndefeaTed.  A Boxing Lesson.

A friend, off the Vineyard,
wrighted a ship.
And, perhaps himself,
and certainly the worlds ‘round him.
His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight
as were the splines and bungholes and rudder pins and
All the Things...

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Categories: shipshape, boat, cancer, inspirational, integrity, sea, writing,
Form: Free verse

Espousing Irreverent Greed

Espousing irreverent greed

Passive stance, but aye agreed
and did promise to pledge troth
faster than greased lightning airspeed
once the missus temporarily
ceased menarche regarding monthly bleed
became in family way with child
thee eldest, whom one day may breed,
when permanently...

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Categories: shipshape, adventure, age, animal, beautiful, birth, child, creation,
Form: Rhyme
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Rolling Stones

Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice       ...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shipshape, funny, mountains, ocean, river, silly,
Form: I do not know?
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The River Mersey and the Black Pearl New Brighton

The River Mersey and The Black Pearl New Brighton 

Let the Caribee and sultry sea call to the pirates bold. 
But on this shore, with its tales of lore, The Mersey keeps its hold
For merchants,...

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Categories: shipshape, adventure, beach, boat, imagination, river,
Form: Verse

The Unpredictable

~The Unpredictable~
The view enlivened her imagination by remembering how 
she escaped her long past history of abuse by being judged 
over the years she had nightmares as it was not her fault their
eyes were all...

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Categories: shipshape, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry

Being Proactive After Getting Hoodwinked

(alternatively titled: tardy duff fender of assertiveness,
especially after adjusting following insanity clause
affixed with rubber baby-buggy bumpers)

Methinks I nearly got snookered
courtesy CVS employee at store number 7569
(address: 1206 North Gravel Pike,
Zieglerville, Pennsylvania 19492)
September ninth, two thousand...

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Categories: shipshape, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, crazy, father,
Form: Rhyme

My Wed Ding Anniversary Number Xxii

More' n force gore
     and seven years ago
tha youngest daughter of
     Willian and Sylvia Zison
     found her beau
pea ping over a paperback
 ...

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Categories: shipshape, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, gender,
Form: Free verse

Resumption of Daily Nightly Constitutional Lap1

Resumption of daily/nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(many hours before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery),
and resumed walking a circuit
around perimeter of parking lot
today, a breezy temperate
twenty fifth of April two thousand
and twenty...

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Categories: shipshape, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

National Panic Wednesday March 9th, 2022 Actually Every Day

National Panic Wednesday March 9th, 2022 actually... every day

Founded by Tom and Ruth Roy
solely to acknowledge hardship
of A. R. Harris
and her husband M.S. Harris,
who cope poorly
(even courtesy medication)
with anxiety attacks, especially when
violated, probed, interrogated courtesy
Highland...

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Categories: shipshape, adventure, angst, bullying, conflict, discrimination, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse

The Unpredictable

~The Unpredictable~


Being judged changed her attitude 
voluntarily her Communicating 
will grow beyond, she will not feel trapped 
 or suffer her velocity will willfully create wrath 
among those who had judged her. 
  ...

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Categories: shipshape, boat, change, freedom, happiness,
Form: Free verse
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Is Friendship Just a Delusional Fiction

Is Friendship Just a Delusional Fiction?

Is friendship a lifeboat that floats on convenience?
Can we all divorce who we like with a gesture
that’s less than a wave on a looking glass seascape,
ignore too, the wreckage of...

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Categories: shipshape, friendship love, life,
Form: Rhyme

Hiss Spouse Sing Irreverent Greed

Aye agreed
and did promise to pledge troth
faster than greased lightning airspeed
once the missus temporarily
ceased menarche regarding monthly bleed
became in family way with child

thee eldest, whom one day may breed
opting out begetting offspring
later versus schooner, I...

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Categories: shipshape, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Relevancy of Aristotle Within the 21st Century Lesson 2

Beethoven to roll over,
     dee composing
     (sans my zany brainy adherence
     to "FAKE" information I eschew)
and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off...

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Categories: shipshape, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, age,
Form: Lyric

Rats Mine Poetic Submissions Once Again Deemed Floccinaucinihilipilification

Rats! Mine Poetic Submissions Once Again Deemed Floccinaucinihilipilification
/?fläks??nôs??ni?hil??pil?fi'kaSH?n/
(floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion)

Countless declined submissions of mine,
tipping scales massive
Earth Atlas shrugged,
(he nonchalantly shouldered
1.317 × 10^25 lbs)

sends storied ambition plummeting
millstone yoked neck analogous
to bajillion pound weight
thus yours truly
doth modify expectations

absolute zero...

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Categories: shipshape, blue, dream, paradise, prayer, smart, tribute, voyage,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Sans Scribbling Scrolling, Scrounging Scrunching Scrying Scribe Section Sixty

the following quite quirky epistle may not exhibit the ordinary characteristics of poetry, but i decided to share this self made challenge (where every word begins with the letter "S" - no explanation can be...

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Categories: shipshape, adventure, creation, funny, humor, poetry, smart, word
Form: Free verse

Cadets Dress Ship

The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip

Well-trained, ...

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Categories: shipshape, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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Barco Do Boa Vista 2

Barco do Boa Vista 2 

Windswept, worn and weary sails
You might think that this boat ails
But with sound and sturdy, solid mast
She sails the ocean's waves at last

There was one here not long before her
But...

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Categories: shipshape, art, beach, fantasy, imagination, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
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Living the Dream

Living the dream, in your teens, not hardly.
If you forever found yourself back in time
but with memories of all that is lost, and
find you cannot even locate your Valentine,
even with your good looks, shipshape body,
your...

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Categories: shipshape, age,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Dino Dino

Dino, dino, why so glum?
Let the night your pain numb,
Don’t you know that sad’s no fun,
Let the moon be your pale sun,

Count each star, count with me,
No, no, no. There’s four, not three!
They glimmer with...

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Categories: shipshape, friendshipbeautiful, beautiful, green, hope,
Form: I do not know?
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Tidy

Located in the perfect place
       Filed in transparent drawer
       Unruly impediments erased
       Facets interact free of flaw


...

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Categories: shipshape, anxiety, cute, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
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