Short Lifeboat Poems

mighty waves rise high,
 crashing down, thunderous sound!
 as  the lifeboat sinks...

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Lifeboat
you must not sink
please save me from my fate
love cannot keep me from drowning
in tears...

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D. Guzzi CT USA lost off 
Fiji lifeboat beached atoll sharks
Spared rescued by islanders
Contact son San Fran CA
Love, takes ashes home
Beautiful trip
Live long and 
Prosper
Ma....

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JUST ERASE ME
A SIDE NOTE
I AM NOT THE ONE
WITH THE PIECES
I PULL APART
SHATTER AND BREAK
I CAN'T HOLD YOU UP
TO THE LIGHT
JUST LET GO
THERE IS NO ROOM
FOR TWO
ON THIS LIFEBOAT.

2015...

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Sues uses her ‘flotation tanks’,
When swimming between river banks,
Her boobs keep her afloat,
She won’t need a lifeboat,
For boobies us gals can give thanks!

07/30/20...

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BOAT
grounded
black and blue

aged with ebon clouds
water’s edge reminisce
slow return to heaven’s light

“Shekinah Glory in lifeboat”

6/5/2022
Pyramids Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
HMS...

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  Whirlpools of loneliness
were pulling me down,
you were my lifeboat.

With all my effort
I forced myself
to push toward you.

Your kisses, your smiles,
your touch saved me 
from my lonely life.


Shirley Smothers...

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Mayday! 
Mayday!
This heavy heart is drowning me
I'm distressed and in a panic
And so far away from shore

Call the coast guard! 
Send out an SOS!
I'm not equipped to say goodbye
In unchartered waters, you left me behind
Alone
To navigate your stormy seas...

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Bad management isn't that like the captain and the crew of a sinking ship telling his passengers that there is not a thing he can do but he'll do his best to save their lives but yet the captain and the 2 first mates escape in the lifeboat while the passengers drown...

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In a thin-skinned lifeboat,
On the waves of love,
With the cold blue below,
And the hot sun above,
Sits a soul softly rowing,
Like the wings of a dove.
As the heat of sweet resistance,
Echoes hard with pure insistence,
Then, in the midst, a sound is heard,
Of the song of an unseen bird....

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When you are travel on 
"The Icon of the seas",
Sometimes I'm only a lifeboat for you. 
I know your circle is the biggest as it is. 
It's okay. 
because I understood. 
Our bonds and destiny 
written by wave of the sea. 
So, whenever you sinking
 I'm here for you.
...

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Every foul thought or 
wicked intention 
is a stinger to the soul
an infection in the mind
a bruising of the heart...
poking holes in the lifeboat of life.

Every good thought
or golden intention
is balm to the soul
a feather in the mind
buoying the heart..
a Northstar above the lifeboat of life...

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Controlling  my heart like cruise control,
Manually jerking the gears of my life,
His crashing waves of love,
Determined to sink Hate's lifeboat.

The tissue of my tears,
Wiping the winshield into reality,
Honorable suits,
Wrinkled by Todays,
Ironed by Tomarrows.
Deeper than trenches is his love for me....

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Caught in a sea of memory
Adrift with false security
You claw for the shore
But you need to see more
You're drowning in your own history

There's a lifeboat chartered on give and take
You'll pay the price for the choice you make
So play with the band
Or paddle toward land
Perhaps your ocean is merely a lake...

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An ascetic dies in a shoe
spilling blood.
A surreal moon
wants to investigate –

a sectarian divide of
fraudulent sky.
And you want to be buried
under rose petals –

courting controversies
to clean the polluted river.
A lifeboat was needed
to take you for a quiz –

singing national anthem.
Emblematic,
You were sharpening
your nails.



Satish Verma...

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out of habit, i
fingered the sand-colored bowl

after guests grappled
with paper plates

i, with Cabernet
dark eyes at dinner time

shame, shame
on me

my conscience
lowers my bowl into the sink
like a titanic lifeboat
wavering.

the solitary vessel
shamefully 
alone

meanwhile paper plates
press on
in the trash bin heap

3/20/2020...

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I hear the distinctive cry of seagulls
Although I am far from the sea

In my imagination I see
A violent sea, with crashing waves
Spray raining down onto the promenade
Fishermen stranded in their boats, awaiting rescue
The lifeboat traversing it’s ramp into the sea

Wheeling seagulls caterwaul to each other
“Today, the fish are too deep to catch,
We need to eat – let’s fly inland
And scavenge instead of fishing”....

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amber ochers morphing
to brilliant tangerines
melding into the horizon
an undulating sea
fusing with the setting sun
unveiling hints of mysteries
beyond shades of exotic dreams
a sense of adventure
adrift on a lifeboat
carefree
faith in the universe
and all it has to offer



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on August 28, 2018 for contest END AUGUST PREMIERE 2018 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on August 25, 2018...

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I always thought a captain
Had to go down with his ship.
Forgetting this, for captains,
Seems to be a major slip.

As passengers were scrambling
To keep themselves afloat,
The captain was observing from
The safety of his boat.

A lifeboat is the one I mean,
Away from the disaster.
The sinking ship, where he belonged,
Once hailed him as its master.

Of course there’ll be a price to pay
And he can only lose.
Another reason why I never
Plan to take a cruise!...

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Casualty of Loss

Drifting in murky waters
shadows lengthening
with sorrow’s darkness blight.
Cobwebbed remembrances
take flight, taking with it 
prism’s life-light

Shades of gloom
mist yonder shores
obscuring vision, while
leeching into the life source
stagnating the living waters.

Cruel fate laps brutally
against the sands of time
while memories smother
and are swept away
on death borne
callus waves

Lifeboat sinking 
with life’s bleedings
along shadowed shores....

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AUDIBLE HORRIBLE
hearing paddling away
think silence bouquet

PALETTE TRAGIC
taste creel caught
meals easier bought

EMOTIONAL REVERSAL
warship bombards feelings
cheaper dental drillings

OLFACTORY REFRACTORY
smell setting sail
restroom odors bail

VISUAL PITIFUL
eyesight in lifeboat
memorize your remote

LOGIC FROLIC
mind barge bound
serenity island found






... CayCay
October 19, 2018 
(written for contest)...

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