Riverboat Poems - Poems about Riverboat

...I traveled almost everywhere, growing up. It took years. The landscapes, flora and fauna, the art, music, cuisines and curse words all seem to blend together in my mind. Mount Fuji, the Rhine, the......Read the rest...

...Excitement filled the air as the calliope played News spread the famed steamboat was near, Its whimsical gingerbread trimmings displayed. The whole town would rush to the esplanade ......Read the rest...

...I sat in a flop house common room Doing social research one Christmas Eve, Galveston in '79, I do believe. I was there in a room full of strangers. Sammy Davis and Old Blue Eyes Sang on the TV ......Read the rest...

...glare eye to eye gin ship lie stuck spent idle lost 11/25/20202 Than-Bauk Me Poetry Contest Sponsored by: charles messina A Than-Bauk poem consists of 3 lines. Each line consists o......Read the rest...

......The two men confirmed Fred went for his gun, and the captain just let the whole thing be, Lyle got up and walked out to the deck, in the fresh air he felt able to breath. He paced up to the ......Read the rest...

...Lyle Cosgrove had worked the Silver Queen for two years now, ever since he had left family drama back in Ohio, he had simply left his home and moved west. He made a living as a gambler, had sp......Read the rest...

...I. The Settlement Hickory bark bluffs at the blend of two rivers. Gasconade waters buttered with the muddy Missouri. A lookout......Read the rest...

...Harvey the Hippo Harvey is a huge hippopotamus Who bathes in a bay that is bottomless HIs mouth is as large as a riverboat barge And he weighs ten times more than a lot of us Big Harvey isn’......Read the rest...

...Powdered Sugar Daydreams Time becomes invisible, ceasing to matter as this place in all its magic and wonder blooms upon the gardens of our imagination, playing like birds on a sky of opa......Read the rest...

...Mississippi Moments History journeys along with its meandering flow as a wide birth from bank to bank has eyes straining trying to see across to the other side, far too wide. Muddy rivul......Read the rest...

...I love the child who steers this riverboat, Though he seems crazy, for the deep. The river seems dreamlike, in the moonlight-- Someone keeps creeping, in my sleep. And dreams, of rolling river-- Of w......Read the rest...

...He plied the Mississippi River on the paddle wheeler 'Dandy Dame'. Gamblin' was his profession and three-card monte was his game. He became very creative at palmin' that elusive ace of spades. Suc......Read the rest...

...Hanging With The Moon Moving to the deep hollow rhythm of the double bass coupled the with dance of the piano keys and the slow cadence of the guitar strum. This Master of Jazz ......Read the rest...

...porch light midnights your voodoo kisses drifting in the fog to french quarter sidewalks walking on the ghosts of southern intimacy antique balconies with green wooden shutters half shadows......Read the rest...

...I was on the road to hell one day and then Jesus stopped the bus He told the devil "you can't have this soul because she is one of us" He then took me off that riverboat going to Hades and place......Read the rest...