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Portside Poems - Poems about Portside

Premium Member Capsizing the Costa Concordia
...Capsizing the Costa Concordia Divers wreathe silently through the submerged corridors of a  140,000-ton wreck. Little fish dark haphazardly through the juxtaposition of tilted ballroom, grani......

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Categories: portside, sea,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Llareggub
...I live in Arrubluc by the sea much like the fabled Llareggub made famous by Dylan Thomas in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'. The land meets the sea here as well, but it's a beachside town, besi......

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Categories: portside, beach, poetry, poets, sound,
Form: Rhyme



Storm
...Storm The waves in the storm raged Pacific Ocean waves became deep ravines and tall mountains; in the binoculars, I saw an American hangar ship, its massive deck was glistering iron swept o......

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Categories: portside, death, lost, november,
Form: Blank verse
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 ship, a friendship between the animate ......

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Categories: portside, absence, break up, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Stained Glass Pane
...One day— The sea will be my backyard Every morning, standing upon the deck Of the one called Going Numb A “Greatest Dad” mug in one hand My last vice burning orange in the other I wi......

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Categories: portside, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Damage Control
...With thoughts of getting fish-faced on a Friday night, I dropped anchor in a portside bar To contemplate the crooked path to closing time; Couldn’t guarantee I’d get that far. I ordered a te......

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Categories: portside, allegory, relationship,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Mv Wilhem Gustloff
... This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10,600 war refugees Sank on the 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the......

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Categories: portside, boat, death, horror, world
Form: Couplet
Window Gazing
...Window Gazing Maureen Staley Cary Might her mood be blue like the curtain or the shade of sea stripes on her dress staring portside, about to take a step through the open frame ......

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Categories: portside, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Tangible 1
...We patronize those ships that traverse these oceans, for they sustain a set schedule and not as spontaneous as others. Their fixation of the seas proves their genuineness and the portal to our......

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Categories: portside, boat, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Pirate's Life
...The ship has set sail Through the lighting and thunder The pirates all ready For adventure and plunder The rain hits the deck They all sing a chantee They raised their sails through A stor......

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Categories: portside, adventure, confidence, courage, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Lighthouse
...Your pillar of truth Our beacon of light Show us the way (of the) Starboard and the portside Illuminate me now Bedazzle me white See me so small Im blinded in sight Thy tower so tall Empow......

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Categories: portside, courage, jesus, light,
Form: Free verse
Dogfight
...I turned into the fight with a burst from my guns Please don’t jam on me now Pouncing unseen onto a ME One One Zero He’s gonna go down somehow My cannon have hit the iron heart of this beast Cau......

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Categories: portside, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Star Paths:
...A poem I shall attempt to write of heavenly delight, About all the wonders that shine deep in the night. There is so much more than the Moon and stars above, From the earliest navigators that fe......

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Categories: portside, beauty, boat, ocean, sea,
Form: Couplet
Life's Wild Side
...standing midnight watch on the quarter deck shipyard worker reported cries for help Officer of the Deck sent me to check on the portside sounded like a dog’s yelp I knew of the barges on the portsid......

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Categories: portside, adventure, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
A Message
...A Message Our old captain was pensioned off, he had been the master on the same ship for ten years and at sixty five he didn´t know where to go as his whole life had been the sea. The first of......

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Categories: portside, funny, history, old, old,
Form: Blank verse

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