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Overboard Poems - Poems about Overboard

Overboard Poems - Examples of all types of poems about overboard to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for overboard.
a ship's cook
...A ship's cook  The sea is dark, clunky, and calm today slowly undulate  turns white where the ship's bow has plowed a furrow that stretches for miles. Gulls still follow us, shrieking and wai......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, absence, anti bullying, books,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Rhyming
...Some folks, for fun, collect stamps or cook. Others may seek lofty mountains to climb. Erudite people might well pen a book, But I'm happiest when I make a rhyme. My hope is to write m......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ricochet
...Don't go overboard If you want to live, turn back Sweep enough on chord.......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, change, engagement, inspiration, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Could He Cling
... to a narrow plank his fingers clung hurled overboard by a storm that wrung the life from his companions would he slip or could he cling to this fragile thing ‘......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, adventure, courage, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Inmate
... There is a man, locked away. Shackled, chilled rusty bars, barb-wrapped fences apart from his fellow man. Shunned, unseen and unheard, stigmas of a world unknowing of repentance. Of reaw......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Overboard
...She is but a passing shadow flitting across the moonlit sea Wandering waves roaming their ripples in search of her next ship to board Steered by starlight she journeys to fresh horizons ......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, angst, blue, irony, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
It Won't Be Me Anymore
...I was caught in a rumbling ricochet I was stuck In a stranger’s war I was dust In an old gold pocketwatch But that won’t be me anymore And I was tack To an old, worn sailor Watch me tumbl......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, abuse, anger, desire, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Trust the Process
...My heart It beats Its own sound It makes the world go around Before a person gets to know you They see the outer Not the inner You don't have to go overboard. You are a winner Where d......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Didn’t Panic- Aboard The Titanic
...Sirens, alarm bells and unscheduled drills Intended to teach us emergency skills On land we might jump up and run for the trees But where does one run in these vast frigid seas It has to be sai......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
The Passage
...Time's a sea passage that we all have to travel An event where we witness our short lives unravel The ship of mortality, leaving life in its wake Lives tossed about on a sea of heartache Regret......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, death, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2
...Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.” Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their sled A dog th......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, cat, christmas, dog,
Form: Narrative
Misfit Miss Feet
...Misfit, Miss Feet (A literary translation) Gossipmonger rumors around! A wedding ensuing, Mary go-round! May I have a speaker call? Surmising the news to scroll? Not bad, not bad at all, there!......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, anti bullying, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Rhyme
The Baby
... B e c a u s e o f T h e B a b y {1} "A glaring light in our House ......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, allah, appreciation, baby, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rice In the Ocean
...I dreamt that I went swimming, Into the deep blue sea And from nowhere appeared a mermaid, That had swum right next to me The next thing I remembered, She had pulled me underneath, Into a c......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whoa Edna
...I never thought you could go wrong If you added color, for I love it so. But my cousin Edna who wore a thong Went overboard until I yelled “whoa!” Your eyes do not get used to the patterns ther......Read the rest...
Categories: overboard, women,
Form: Rhyme

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