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Shanghaied Poems - Poems about Shanghaied

I lived the real life shanghaied
.... save 'twuz tuh feed mine he and here this tattered i share storys with ......

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Categories: shanghaied, bullying, character,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......

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Categories: shanghaied, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks
...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks... studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe My utmost humblest apology for inducing the following cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium, but ......

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Categories: shanghaied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aint No Better Freedom
...Yo ho dough and a bottle of rum and stale crumpets for you and me Arrggh matey, you have been shanghaied and we’re heading to sea if you squawk or protest, Cap’n will flail you or make you walk the......

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Categories: shanghaied, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member American Eagle
...Soaring sovereign, white-crowned bird, Shanghaied silently without a word. Strong feathers molted one-by-one. Pinfeather plumed on bare skin. Wet market ready. 3/19/2023......

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Categories: shanghaied, bird, flying, sad, strength,
Form: Free verse



Lady With the Pink Fuzzy Floppy Hat
...If you ever espy a latitudinally and longitudinally challenged older yet shopping savvy woman, (wedded to yours truly for almost twenty six years), who stands approximately four feet and ten in......

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Categories: shanghaied, character, color, cute, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love In 1967
...her heart was shanghaied captured on a sunny beach with waves lapping happily in a nineteen sixty-seven day Beach Boys were singing From a portable transistor wind carried happy laughter he ......

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Categories: shanghaied, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fated Current
...Are you the latest one I’ve left alone, heart Shanghaied—no goodbye Are you wondering why as questions loom, the answers high and dry Were you sure you’d be the only one, to wade misfortune’......

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Categories: shanghaied, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Soporific Narcoleptic Pull Wielded Courtesy Innocent Looking Bed
...Hypnagogic spell immediately cast overpowering drug induced state fast overcome even those who just woke prolonged narcotic effect could last bajillion years (hyperbole to wake any lil lulled re......

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Categories: shanghaied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Sassy Sobriquets Schooled Sissy Spindleshanks
...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks... studious skinny scruffy scribe Scathing, scolding, screaming, scorning, searing, sing, sociopathic sarin soaked skewed squirt, sputtering, squa......

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Categories: shanghaied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tundra - Desert - Mirage
...The red-throat trawled me to a shanghaied shore then left me raw in split-sedated state. A sense of morning meant the lamp lit late and when I dream I taste a little gore, but it was peaceful the......

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Categories: shanghaied, how i feel,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Quindean and Quindine
...Quindean was mad at her silly loud-mouth sister, Quindine. Quindine accidentally said they were eight when they were nine. She hid her favorite clothes; threw away her saddle shoe. What else would......

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Categories: shanghaied, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Milk Carton Crying
... My poor vocabulary babies are gon missing Tell me kind sir, have you seen them? Us etymological mothers to lingual children of lost former meaning, we are milk carton crying Man......

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Categories: shanghaied, grief, metaphor, sad, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Shanghaied
...I was drinkin’ wine that night in Mike’s bar, She was cozied close to me in side booth Me ship, anchored quarter league not so far, lay in deep Frisco fog mate, that’s whole truth. I was havin’ b......

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Categories: shanghaied, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Bucket of Bolts
...This is the last poem forming a trilogy of Spenserian Sonnets written in trochee pentameter relating to the sea. The first poem is titled Mike's Bar, second poem Shanghaied, third poem Bucket Of Bolt......

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Categories: shanghaied, august,
Form: Sonnet

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