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Onboard Poems - Poems about Onboard

the end of everything
...The end of everything The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been the master of the vessel, a friendship between the animat......

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Categories: onboard, age, art, books, break
Form: ABC
Premium Member God Made My Bed This Morning
... God made my bed this morning Of course, I made my bed, but God planned according God ordains all things, (good or bad, all things) Yes, even the Drill Sergeant’s inspection to see if my bed spri......

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Categories: onboard, encouraging, god, wisdom,
Form: Couplet



a seaman's life
...A seaman's life Looking at the map, I have been to most countries  that have seaports but no time to explore work  had to be done whether it was Monday or Sunday I have crossed many seas. The P......

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Categories: onboard, angst, appreciation, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member The English Cuisine
... The British have been sailing the world’s seas, creating colonies and enriching themselves, and it’s been going on for centuries. Yet to their shame their cuisine has remained stolidly E......

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Categories: onboard, food,
Form: Light Verse
To Those That Don't Understand - continued part 2
...(continued from Part 1) ..To those that don't comprehend No accident or by default - WHY the world is; or has become insane, Inevitably of course we see that, There IS a Group to Bla......

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Categories: onboard, art,
Form: Political Verse



Egon Hedin the cook
...Egon Hedin the cook When I joined the ship as a second cook I had trained as a baker, on a tank ship with forty crews, one, who could bake a passable loaf was needed The cook’s name was Egon Hedin,......

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Categories: onboard, anti bullying, beautiful, confidence,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Onboard
...Let's make sweet music, I'm onboard I'll play the strings and strum the chords Easy does it, nice and slow One has to take one's time you know It takes a while to make good songs Sometimes it ma......

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Categories: onboard, for her, imagery, love,
Form: Rhyme
For all of us
...This as you all are aware is the first flight of Xeon His hair unkempt bounced as he smiled And I your captain His smile widened His hand hovered over neon glyphs To somewhere else ......

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Categories: onboard, poems,
Form: Free verse
Love In Twilight Age
...Love in the twilight age Is a ripe love No longer about perfect But about giving a comfortable feeling To go back home. Love is never not a respecter of age It's just that it doesn't fit in......

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Categories: onboard, age, love, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth Will Set Me Free
...A scarlet daydreamer marbled in blue velvet marooned in confidence mired in yucky mucky chucks Twas a heist at gunpoint to honor those petted I have brained the threshold and my mind turned to ......

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Categories: onboard, music, perspective, poetry, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member ''NFC'': Entropy COMPLETE
...Energy found its way through the rigorous rigamarole of trial and error of those persistent like the Wright Brothers, the Curies, or Thomas Edison, and others. The close failures were......

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Categories: onboard, death, imagery, racism, war,
Form: Didactic
Looking Ahead Again
... Wrote a poem just four years ago reminding myself how I must grow. Entitled it then "Looking Ahead"; Each year, new verse I add to that thread. “Looking inward in 2-O-2-2. a more intentional......

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Categories: onboard, 11th grade, remember,
Form: Rhyme
a ship and Germany
...a ship and Germany Unter den Linden, I have a soft spot for the German language when a toddler, I had free access to a military camp where they had enormous horses and let me sit on top of one o......

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Categories: onboard, abuse, allusion, america, break
Form: Free verse
Lavish Honey Carrage Company
...Pasteur Quadrant _______________________ Two Akhal Tekes in front of a space age inspired Carriage " The Trophy and the Crown" They might hack the software in my new "Standard" carriage by La......

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Categories: onboard, analogy, beautiful, business, character,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Crumbling Cookie COMPLETE
...------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A special-Ty license pla-Te had been sen-T to him. He was ve-Ry pleased with I-t when ......

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Categories: onboard, analogy,
Form: Than-Bauk

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