Confucius - 551 BC-479 BC
...Wise man say, “No laugh up sleeve, while wear heart on same.
For misconstrued may be, lose heart's desire, passion's flame.”
Happy dentist say, when at chair, always looking down in mouth,
“If t...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, celebrity, fun, humor, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Queen of the Ocean, Titanic
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Let me tell you a story . . .
The RMS Titanic steamship was the largest
and most magnificent ship in the world (at the time)
high as an 11 story building
and long as 4 "long" city bloc...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, history,
Form: Narrative
I Would Adore My Child
...I would adore my child
I would make him mind
I would praise his attempts
I would love him into pure happiness
I would give him hugs
I would encourage him to be a pirate or a shipbuilder
I would...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, child, children, parents,
Form: Free verse
Feelings In the Rms Titanic Voyage
...On the North Atlantic, wind currents air are emanating from the farsighted North America.
wind howls!
“Sometimes you meet a person and you just click –you are comfortable with him, like you kno...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Zoan To Memphis
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Marvellous things did He in the sight
of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan ...
How He had wrought His signs in
Egypt, and His wonders
in the field of Zoan ...
F...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, bible, slavery, truth, visionary,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 11g 12a
...Chapter 11g
Han and Kwona and their children
Made their courteous introductions
Then were guided to their quarters
Where they soundly slept till sunrise
Chapter 12a The Fireflower
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Categories:
shipbuilder, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
A Boy and His Dreams
...There once was a boy named Paul Revees
who wanted to sail all of the deep, blue seas.
It is all he talked about most of the time
be it at home, or in school and even in the
lunch line.
He dr...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, boat, childhood, dream, kids,
Form: Rhyme
The Glasgow Clearances
...After the end of World War One
The world said Scotland shipbuilding is done,
No longer would anyone pay their bills
For lowland coal and cotton mills.
Fifty thousand Scots per year
Boarded sh...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, history
Form: Rhyme
Sleepless Safari
...Aside from a shipbuilder of renown,
Noah was a hunter of a new kind --
the first to capture and not “put-down”
every land animal he could find.
And he determined the sex of each one
so tha...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, religionanimal, animal,
Form: Sonnet
When I Touched the Driftwood
...Whilst walking along the beach close to where I stay
Like other beach walkers seeing the washed up display
I stumbled across some driftwood buried in the sand
The feeling when I touched it I began...
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Categories:
shipbuilder, imagination, nature, places, sea,
Form: Rhyme