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Oarsmen
Oarsmen Poems - Poems about Oarsmen
The coxswain calls the cadence
...The coxswain calls the cadence …I don’t like his tone But I am forced to listen Cuz he’s got the megaphone I think my oar is twisted As it defies my wishes It hits the water making Loud spla......
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John Lawless
Categories:
oarsmen,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
Most women have grown tired of just being women
...Most women have grown tired of just being women, Weary of always being the flowers of unending seasons, awaiting to be plucked And placed in vases for gazes that never feel their roots; They, the ......
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©
Dan Enache
Categories:
oarsmen,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Gentle Giants of the Sea
...'Thar she blows!' the cry goes up a breaching whale is seen The longboat's manned and low'red the lookout's eyes were keen The hunt begins, the whalers chant the oarsmen strain and pull The w......
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Marc Glasby
Categories:
oarsmen,
death, ocean,
Form:
Ballad
Children of An Angry Father
...When primeval men were made, Someone said they were perfect, But I ask them how plausibly so Can perfection beget imperfection? They laughed and I laughed in return. Some others said they became......
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Chime Justice Ndubuisi
Categories:
oarsmen,
anger, children, courage, father,
Form:
I do not know?
Romantic - Acrostic
...Resurrected love Overpowers the pagan lusts, Mitigates marauding insatiability, Arousing within the valiant vixen Nocturnal nuances to trap the moon, Titillating a horizons distant nee......
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John Lawless
Categories:
oarsmen,
lust, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Acrostic
Theater of Utter Charm Part 5
...she left me defenseless again for reasons that cannot be spoken but that can be further diagrammed worthy of forensic dissection deep into the cauliflower folds branching like rivers of lightnin......
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©
Walter Alter
Categories:
oarsmen,
how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 12c
...Chapter 12 c The fireflower (cont.) When at last they had descended Back down to the forest clearing Rosy sidled up to Lisa Yielded up the flowering branches Now they had secured the fire......
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©
Phil Salmon
Categories:
oarsmen,
adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
The Lake
...(after Alphonse de Lamartine) Thus, ever driven onward to new shores, borne constantly away, Can we never, in the Ocean of the Ages, drop anchor for a day? Oh, this beautiful lake! The year ......
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©
Michael Coy
Categories:
oarsmen,
love,
Form:
Couplet
The Vikings
...Harsh winds blow from a baron frozen land, Of ice and snow. Exhaling Nordic gods breath a chilling mist An eerie foggy vapor creeping along the Waters aquatic edge. Rages angry seas lap against the ......
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Cherl Dunn
Categories:
oarsmen,
courage, dedication, history, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Drunk Pirates Don'T Do Poetry
...Who be th' stenchin' verminous Horsman what hollers t' th' seafarin' oarsmen when th' mind's a-fog where we fest th' grog why be d'mandin' pennin's of bay men ***All errors are intentional and ......
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Delysia Hendricks
Categories:
oarsmen,
on writing and words,
Form:
Limerick
In London
...In London Big Ben told me the time Seven p.m. With chains clinking history A few yards away With his heavy jaw Churchill was chewing Burned out human wisdom People were crammed into every s......
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Betim Muco
Categories:
oarsmen,
travel
Form:
Free verse
An Oarsman
...not a captain or a first mate but an oarsman was to be their fate the oarsman row the ship along either one , two or hundreds strong one small part of a large ship but surly the tool that car......
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John Loving Iii
Categories:
oarsmen,
angstwork, work,
Form:
Narrative
Man of the Future
...There are signs everywhere. But even "signs" imply there is space Between the signs That might mean less than the signs. All is a sign, a signal. We are oarsmen of fluid time, Delusional in our......
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Matt Caliri
Categories:
oarsmen,
places, time,
Form:
Free verse