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Shore Leave Poems - Poems about Shore Leave


shore leave
...A boy and shore leave  The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old tank ship late at night, looking up at the millions of stars over The Red Sea. His job was to clean pots an......

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Categories: shore leave, abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
A Boy Goes Ashore
...A boy and shore leave The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old tank ship late at night looking up to the millions of stars over The Red Sea. His job was to clean pots and pan......

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Categories: shore leave, absence, abuse, blessing, confidence,
Form: Blank verse



Shore Leave
...shore leave The ship, in the bay, had a load of grain from the fertile soil of Ukraine, loaded in Odesa, and sent on its way across the Black Sea. In the Dardanelles, a stop for inspections to......

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Categories: shore leave, best friend, deep, heartbroken,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Book of Kings - 1 Kings 16:31-33
...Ahab needed shore leave, And obsessed so on his dream, Harpooning some sweet harlot Had become his major theme. He was just a novice mariner, His first time far from home. He’d made his maid......

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Categories: shore leave, allegory, bible, humor, literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Lotus Eaters
...Those over 50's holidays that they advertise on TV must really do people a power of good, at least that's how it seems to me. Their smiles are all truly dazzling, soft-focus smooth is their skin......

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Categories: shore leave, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member To Boldly Go
...My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee I entered the transporter room where I'd dematerialize And within seconds......

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Categories: shore leave, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Old Sailor
...OLD SAILOR The old sailor sat on a sea wall Watching heaving swell of dancing waves Crowned with foam of swirling white Hearing shrill cries of seagulls. ......

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Categories: shore leave, memory, sea,
Form: Free verse
Shore Leave
...Shore Leave As I sink my toes deeply into the warm sand I hold ever closer her warm moist delicate fingertips into my hand I hear the thunderous roar of the ocean as it thrusts itself onto t......

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Categories: shore leave, i love you, longing,
Form: Romanticism
When the Boat Comes In 2
...Sinbad and Columbus nautical Miles from home Their flotilla of frigates Sea sailed flags, flown Compulsorily becalmed Roped to steadfast bollards Wharf bound Red, green marine, sea blue scene Mar......

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Categories: shore leave, world,
Form: Verse
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 7
...Legend Of The Black Dove (Part 7) "Civil Unrest" As the ship's mast starts to fall Norrington with his amazing speed leaps at the pirate captain knocking him to the ......

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Categories: shore leave, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunset Somewhere
...Swept away in a spaceship with a Captain Dylan Hunt, by name. He looks just like Kevin Sorbo of television's "Hercules" fame. I'm not sure which is more shocking, this galaxy quest or the hunk......

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Categories: shore leave, adventure, fantasy, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme

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