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Seaway Poems - Poems about Seaway

Premium MemberThe Lighthouse at Night

...The lighthouse sits upon the desolate island shore
Slowly dilapidating as its pieces fall to the ocean floor 
Seagulls and ospreys have made it their coastal home
As it sits unsafe in a place most...
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Categories: seaway, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

shipping accident

...The shipping accident

It was late evening when the captain of a Russian owner cargo came down from the bridge where he and the first mate had mapped the route from Humberside to Amsterdam. North S...
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Categories: seaway, age, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberSmuggler's Boat

...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on ...
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Categories: seaway, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse

Happiness Like Water

...It's morning on the seaway.
Snows had gathered in drops and hops.
Prepared to dance to mellifluous flute.
But the sky is dark.

Everywhere, the tone is clear.
Human faces are strewn with fear.
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Categories: seaway, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

The British Seashore

...On the cliff at the Worm’s Head 
High above the horns of the bay
I see the surfers ride great waves
With horses’ manes
That ever fail, but never end
In the strong Atlantic surge...
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Categories: seaway, beach, boat, environment, nostalgia,
Form: Verse



The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes

...The Great Lakes acronym spells homes

I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge 
of aforementioned material slim.

Housing multivarious biomes
register ...
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Categories: seaway, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea

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   Built in a Belfast shipyard
 for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line.
   On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee
 flew the Southern Cross ensign,
   down a slipway to the sea
 launched afar by Her Majesty
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Categories: seaway, childhood, voyage,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOcean Dolphins-

..."Lo! the dolphin dotes laughs
My passion is the maritime coast
'Ocean!' said I, 'thing of seawater.'
Oceans dolphins 
In a kingdom full of coastlines
Eagerly I looked for the seaway
I c...
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Categories: seaway, adventure, analogy, animal, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberThe Gop Presidents Club

...The GOP Presidents Club

Nineteen Republicans have occupied the Oval Office since 1861.
Around the table gather GOP presidents from Lincoln to Trump,
Sipping bourbon and wine and diet cola...
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Categories: seaway, america, education, history, patriotic,
Form: Verse

The Great Lakes - Part Two

...Lakes Michigan and Huron are basically a single lake, 
Sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron, combined doth make
Total area of 45,300 square miles (117,000 km2) 
Have the same surface elevation of ...
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Categories: seaway, cool, devotion, environment, fishing,
Form: Free verse

The Great Lakes - Part One

...Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian...
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Categories: seaway, creation, environment, joy, sea,
Form: Epic

River of Life

...Six to eight African nations
count on the powerful Zambezi.
Rightly called their river of life -
its wilderness lets wildlife roam free.

Batoka Gorge attracts tourists as
Victoria Falls' wet s...
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Categories: seaway, africa, anxiety, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Bar Stool Bed Sore Ode To the Record Machine

...Bar Stool Bed Sore Ode to the Record Machine

Smoking Winstons
At the Seaway Lounge
At 2:00 a.m.

The juke-box sighs out
Buck Stovell, Roy Crestline and an occasional Darla Parsell,
Whoever s...
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Categories: seaway, depression, drink,
Form: Free verse

The House That Jack Built 3

...The House That Jack Built 3
Frequently we youngest four gathered bottles that were strewn in ditches,
 And along the railroad track,
Then glide our feet over well-worn steel rails on the journey b...
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Categories: seaway, growing up, home, memory,
Form: Lyric

Turtle Eggs

...seaway blue stem~
Massive mama's 
bury their babies...
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Categories: seaway, animals, history, life, nature,
Form: Haiku

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