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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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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


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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
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
Premium Member 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?

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