Short Figurehead Poems
Short Figurehead Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Figurehead by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Figurehead by length and keyword.
Prow of the Sea
Oceanic hull,
Cold aquatic figurehead:
Surging liquid prow....
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Categories:
figurehead, nature, ocean, sea,
Form:
Haiku
Figurehead
Figurehead alone
Powerless to change a thing
Ancient figure standing
In the middle of a forgotten land
Unable to recreate the relationship
That once was so relevant...
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Categories:
figurehead,
Form:
Lyric
Calling From Within
Religion becoming meaningless
when propriety goes away
Nothing to sit atop the lies
nothing to lead astray
Claiming the title to prophecies spun
each figurehead stands tall
To augment the legend of what never was
—as Divinity still calls
(The New Room: January, 2023)...
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Categories:
figurehead, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Dippity Doo
Starching my hair with Dippity Doo
It stood up like a figurehead too
It was a contest between me and Lou
To see what strange things our hair could do
Dippity Doo Dippity Doo
I loved you so much, you smelled good too
Swirling my finger inside your bowl
Gave me a little uplift for my soul...
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Categories:
figurehead, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Ships Figurehead
There once was a pirate from Antilles
That chased all the young beautiful fillies
To all a deception vow
Carving of them on ships bow
Lies brought doom, now lies in field of lilies
4/10/2019
Pirates Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
Syllables checked with how many syllables 10, 10, 7, 7, 10...
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Categories:
figurehead, eulogy, muse,
Form:
Limerick
In His Name Only
“By God anointed…”
religions claim,
then fight to steal His throne
Devotion pledged
in false pretense,
to become the greater known
A figurehead
to suit their needs,
they break His every rule
To seize with power
these ‘Chosen Ones’
—intentions harsh and cruel
(Villanova University: April, 2021)...
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Categories:
figurehead, god, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thousand Ships
A THOUSAND SHIPS
Is this the face, this old hulk in the salt marsh?
Is this my lady with creaking timbers
and peeling skin?
A mere figurehead, a turkey prow,
missing one oar, grandiloquent, vainglorious,
still fighting the old sea-battles
with the wind and waves
the thousand ships
that lie at the bottom of the sea....
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Categories:
figurehead, fantasy, old, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Poisonous and Polished
Venomous eloquence,
so polite and yet cold;
Pleasantries are plastic
tone sometimes mistaken;
Quiet not dramatic;
Venomous eloquence,
answer’s already known;
Words are a figurehead;
Each one is meaningless,
your heart infiltrated;
Venomous eloquence
it leaves your throat sticky;
Esophagus left trashed,
innards being spit up;
Poisonous and polished....
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Categories:
figurehead, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Monchielle Stanza
Mending Nets
Dockworkers on strike, the ocean gray
and choppy. Wind whips the rigging
of a sailing ship with its weathered hag –
figurehead once lovely in a gentler
age. What Time weaves of us. A line
from memory flits to places farther
inland, when you were younger, every-
thing graced with light: the rain,
the chickweed, and the burdock leaf.
Tomorrow, another ship comes in....
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Categories:
figurehead, life
Form:
Free verse
Flower Day
The joy of a child,
running through a graveyard.
The laughter of children,
echoes from the gravestones.
A figurehead in porcelain,
set in a volcanic necklace.
A queen,
a goddess,
an Angel.
You disappear with the fragments of my mind,
they can not hold you forever.
Were your name not etched in stone,
I would surely forget you.
To remember you is to render myself void....
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Categories:
figurehead, loss,
Form:
I do not know?