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Outboard Poems - Poems about Outboard

LaKe Reflections
...The skiff chug's along toward the end of the lake where the tall peaks are. When I cut the outboard high snowcapped mountains dived down into the still water, below, eagles flew under the hu......

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Categories: outboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Boating Accident
...Eroded, undercut, sagging for years beneath the weight of a dead sycamore, the bank gave way when the lake was closed and the dams opened up during the winter overflow, leaving the tree offsh......

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Categories: outboard, boat, memory, water,
Form: Free verse



A Smoke
...A cigarette Dawn and the mist, what else expect On Lake Martin early spring? Swamp cypress dripping with Spanish moss. I have stopped rowing, water swirling around Oar blades. The silence is ......

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Categories: outboard, autumn, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Slight Light of the Moon
...The Slight Light of the Moon David J Walker Everyone is in Everyone is done Everyone under the sun is in the same boat It’s a big boat It’s a tugboat It’s a lifeboat That won’t floa......

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Categories: outboard, allegory, allusion, life,
Form: Rhyme
Drifting Into Autumn
...It’s taken care of. A friend of ours who owns property by the Ohio river has agreed to make use of her pontoon boat, to take my ashes, to scatter them. I have been working toward this, making ......

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Categories: outboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Marlino
...Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas, Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue......

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Categories: outboard, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Narrative
When the Motor Cut
...The outboard chugged along toward the end of the lake where the tall peaks were. When the motor cut, all was still. Then snowcapped mountains began to rise-up from the lake; eagles flew und......

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Categories: outboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Fishing
...Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail on a shoulder of a wave, Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail full of laziness, they save idleness, he wants no sailing And he doesn’t want his oar, Cares are......

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Categories: outboard, boat, hero, metaphor, mythology,
Form: Lyric
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo......

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Categories: outboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Venice a Crazy Nice Adventure
...Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. Water dominates......

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Categories: outboard, adventure, travel,
Form: Free verse
Dangerous Encounter
...Dangerous Encounter It was a June Saturday after dinner I walked along the docks and noticed a man I knew putting crates of beer on his boat that had an outboard motor. He lived on the other si......

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Categories: outboard, allusion, angst, anxiety, dedication,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Ghosts of the Titanic
...The last few agonizing moments aboard the ill-fated Titanic, Were no doubt filled with horror and unabated panic. She slipped 'neath the waves to settle on the floor of the sea, To create a watery......

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Categories: outboard, boat, ocean, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Summer
...Summer market is crowded, I shall not be found missing. Nothing like withered leaves Or disappearing winter birds But angels in swimming trunks Pressing men to praise the posh. In the shinnin......

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Categories: outboard, seasons, summer,
Form: Verse
Who Is Tlh Andress Thomas Lam Hsi Andress
...Copyright 2014 A.D., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED By Thomas Lam Hsi Andress (TLH ANDRESS) THE 'AUDACITY' OF DISCLOSURE!!! Thomas Hsi 1 second ago This VERY SONG is the VERY REASON that I KEEP HO......

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Categories: outboard, baby, proposal,
Form: Ballad
Were Going To the Florida Keys
...Were going to the Florida Keys! Were going to Florida Keys! As I mentioned we were on our way to the Florida Keys... it was my mother, father, my sisters and me the brother of the family, driving d......

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Categories: outboard, father, feelings, fish, fishing,
Form: Acrostic

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