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Nassau Poems - Poems about Nassau


Another Decade I Wished I Had Experienced
...Six decades ago the landscape of my Little Nassau had places like The Silver Slipper The Blue Note The Banana Boat The Conch Shell The Zanzibar The Cat and Fiddle and The Drumbeat Club wi......

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Categories: nassau, culture, fun, history,
Form: List
Premium Member The Sloop, John B
...The Beach Boys sang about the sloop, John B. They weren’t the first, nor would they be the last. John Bethel built this sixteen-foot-long boat in sixteen forty-seven, in his yard. A sloop had o......

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Categories: nassau, boat, history, voyage,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member My Best Vacation Ever
...We set sail as Reggae music played out on the Lido. Our first night was casual; no need for tuxedo. We could eat a pizza by the Windows On the Sea or go beneath and dine on shrimp and meet the mai......

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Categories: nassau, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Mauricio Nassau Dutch Prince of Recife Brazil
...Recife in huge city turned by the dutch prince Nassau transformed high culture but people enslaved now though so that much time has passed by the people he is still loved......

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Categories: nassau, adventure, allegory, allusion, history,
Form: Quintilla
The Joys of Nature
...He painted the ocean in fifty shades of green and blue with his mighty paintbrush of perfection! He sculpted a garden of coral reefs and barrier reefs for us to see with his powerful chisel......

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Categories: nassau, blessing, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Just Wear a Smile
...In winter I wear cute pyjamas They’re adorned with sweet little llamas We’ve had snow storm after storm I yearn to be somewhere warm Like Nassau in the Bahamas! In summer I just we......

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Categories: nassau, clothes, humorous, seasons,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Ballad of Edward Kenway
...Edward Kenway was a pirate He sailed the Spanish Main He plundered British merchant ships And the Galleons of Spain Once he was a farmer He walked behind the plough But now he ploughed the oc......

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Categories: nassau, adventure, courage, leadership, war,
Form: Ballad
The Flood
...THE FLOOD Sun pours through the window, a shower of light to strike the sheer white pages of my mind, a stark reminder of emptiness mocking me like the faces on the wall. I ......

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Categories: nassau, inspiration, writing,
Form: Free verse
My Hometown
...Grew up in the sixties on Long Island, N.Y., where we had sidewalks, and where you could walk, to local stores, schools, or doctors, or just your neighbor for a talk… Summers went swimming, at......

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Categories: nassau,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Cruisin'
...All aboard the Fantasy M/S of Carnival for half a week’s vacation time of fun and falderal. Hear greetings from your captain, his director and the crew. Ready, set, get going. The Bahamas......

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Categories: nassau, holidaytime, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Vacation
...You've heard of a "Dream" vacation, well that's what I'm gonna do. My wife and I on a cruise ship, which to us is nothing new. This will be the ninth straight year that we've gone on a seven d......

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Categories: nassau, holiday, travelvacation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baldwin, Long Island
...Baldwin is a pretty little hamlet to see. It’s on Long Island in Nassau County. This vibrant place is one that thrives. It holds more than twenty thousand lives. Just travel a little east from th......

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Categories: nassau, travel
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abc's of Capital Cities
...Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see Canberra, is just antipodean class Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass Edinburgh, the capital......

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Categories: nassau, war,
Form: ABC
Crawling Down the Social Ladder
...When I was born, And for the first 5 years, We lived in Brooklyn, "King's County" you should know, Then we moved to "Queen's" Yup, "Queen's County" A small step down the royal ladder, One t......

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Categories: nassau, adventure, allegory, angst, mystery,
Form: Burlesque

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