Short Overboard Poems

arctic cruise
watch overboard
frozen in time...

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Don't go overboard
If you want to live, turn back
Sweep enough on chord....

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Gritty shore pops foamy words
  Sends fantasy back to sea
  Drifting flotsam overboard
  Swept casually...

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witticisms in moonlight 
love’s mattress rumbling with laughs
this couple’s bellies hurting
we go overboard...

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Im happy as long as im free
so why live by admiralty?
im not on a boat
my thoughts make me float
this continent isnt a sea...

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Respect for the ladies, I always had
Perhaps a bit overboard, just a tad
It was meant to be
Tween you and me
Takes me to a new level, I joyously add...

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Smoke harboured in my eyes 
Testing my diffused sanity 
Gritty and alluring in its guile 
Only highlighted stark reality 
Overboard, in an unruly file 
I became more tuned to my destiny...

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The world is strange with it's customs and laws
They're meant to be bent when we eat at the trough
Within reason I mean
Not too extreme
Not overboard stuff like molesting young squaws...

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Blind Charlie was flying with chute on his back
The pilot inquired about time for the pack
I know when to pull the cord
Once I am pushed overboard
It’s just about time, when the dog’s lead goes slack...

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Trump By Throat Horn Limerick

Would like to grab Trump by his throat
Throw overboard or in a moot
Where stupid thoughts did drown
And we stopped wearing frown
Then for Hillary had to vote.

Jim Horn...

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I went overboard,
unseen and unheard,
I shall fall no more,
though my feet are sore,
I will sail the oceans,
and break the motions,
nothing shall hinder 
my way to the sky,
for I wont stop
but fly high and high...

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Sea calm,
Crew slept,
Dark side,
Sea kept,
Tide raced,
Waves crept,
Crew woke,
Sails prepped,
Coiled spring,
Waves leapt,
Overboard,
Crew swept,
Left behind,
They wept.

For the sea has no respect
For the nautically inept …...

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a breaking storm
at sea
lost in a white
-foamed
wave

dark skies
planks of 
wood men 
overboard
floating dots
of flesh scream
-ing in the clim
-ing tide

the sea
holds her secrets
flesh covered
with silver glory

the gold coin
the faded face...

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  to a narrow plank
    his fingers clung
  hurled overboard
    by a storm that wrung 
  the life from his companions 

  would he slip
    or could he cling
  to this fragile thing
    ‘tween him and the
             unforeseen
...

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Trump Not Level Headed

Looks like Trump was not level headed;
Knowledge in brain deeply embedded;
Did hear hint;
He is ignorant;
Toss him overboard with feet leaded.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Bolivia, NC...

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Overreacted to what
Was placed within the 
Current path
Went emotional overboard
With reactions as of late
Emotions took brief control
Over the heart of the matter 
Then crazy fogs has passed 
Leaving claim in its Wake
Thank god in heaven...

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Looks like we could have a green Christmas this year
Which is great as long as it snows on that day, d'ya hear
Just that special day
Then melt all away
Let's not go overboard, can't wait for spring to appear


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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The wind is long
The sails ripped and old
The old boat floats barely on the sea
Worthy of little more


Holding thousands of verse
Contemplation's of no use
Simply to fill up space and time
Importance always lost overboard

Less, you see, is often more...

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This haiku has been deleted due to possible publication.



NOTE: I know I don't typically go artsy-fartsy with my haiku (wax eloquent as Eileen Ghali would call it). But in this case the sky was being too beautiful to NOT go overboard with the descriptions......

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A Tear scars my cheek, With no Time to Think
I watched My MOST BELOVED LENORE --  “ DIE “
Thrown Overboard, by a Boom not  tied 
                The Tears I Cried

                     To Be Continued, if YOU Like??
YOUR Liege ALWAYS and FOREVER; HG ( Harry )...

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Like in a lost ship,
None overboard can sleep,
The waves aren't cheap,
The ship lost its ship,
The ship's sinking deep,
The Captain's giving whip,
The crew's in weep,
The captain did the leap,
He thought the crew weak,
The reason for the leak,
Now all lost in a blink....

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Because the world was young
Because I walked the sun
I am too run

You turned on a
I went overboard
She had a gently persuasive
And I knew

Because the world is round
It turns on
Because she every time
Just like the

Because twofold
He five carrefour
He turns on
She listens
All the time....

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Little Harry was a born coward with life he was bored
                          Went to Montevideo to kiss Elizabeth Ford 
                                     She gifted him with a car
                                      Took him to a tango bar
                  Dined him on a toad when he refused to go overboard...

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Pirates came and stole me away
They thought I was valuable, real gold.
I liked their ship, the swing and sway.
Fooling pirates never gets boring or old.

Captain came and gave a loud angry bray.
You morons, this is pyrite, fools’ gold!
They dumped me overboard that very day
I became a happy locket for a pretty mermaid bold....

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Let them sleep
Do not let hunters
Into dens creep.
Predator kin predator
Mothers and babes
In your safe harbor
Killed without grace.
Who amongst us
Will let this take place?
It's the man on the throne
With the lobbyists' ear;
Overboard humanity is thrown
As no more dangerous
A predator exists
In our world on this ark than us....

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