Short Rowed Poems

Green lanes,
country roads,
flower meadows
mellow yellow cornfields-
hedge-rowed...

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The flood waters lapped all around
Leaving not very much dry ground
So we all rowed home
And got The Road Home
Raising our houses up off the ground...

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An Old Goat in a boat rowed off shore.
He caught perch in his search and much more.
So full was his boat,
there's trout in his coat
Eau de fish was his scent evermore!

a/a/b/b/a  9/9/6/6/9
anapest meter...

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Rowed upon a pond today
At least in my daydreams
Cast a line for trout or bass
Life’s never what it seems

The pole turned into harpoon line
My trout into a whale
My row boat to a brigantine
With well set billowing sail...

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Unruffled beauties
       float in boats rowed by their beaus
    
            one warm Georgia day.

        With fragile paper-white hands,
they fold their fans at twilight.


For the One New or Old Tanka Poetry Contest of Rick Parise...

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I sat down and rowed back in time
down streams of my own poetry
to moments when words rushed like the sea
when syntax broke free like 
days when thoughts broke like a new spring
and each line like a song to sing
i hope this journey never endS
I'm so happy, I'm overwhelmed....

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Skyline of rowed houses
Rolls past and
So do the greys of labour, 
Conservative and otherwise
Are boarded on the decks of
Oil tankers; hollow
Hulking HMS something
Sleeps in the docks
Of the town once red
Now muddy brown
And sick, 
Labour wise and 
Reading Caledonia.

Aberdeen 2012 on route to Shetland...

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Standing at Attention

The military graveyard is a sea of crosses
for veterans of every rank and file.
In a neat formation of a country’s losses
they are rowed in true enlisted style,
white crosses for mile after mile.

12/29/19

Writing Prompt- English Quintain Imagery - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart...

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BOAT RIDING

                          Pretty pig and grey goat wearing white coat
                          came to river to float a wooden boat.	
                                 Boat rowed by Master Mole.
                                  At bottom, mole dig hole.
                         Boat sank but all rescued by swimmer colt.
 
  08/31/18...

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Rowed my skiff 'long a gentle stream
    Afternoon sailed by like fresh whipped cream
  
  When of a sudden, the sky did gleam
    with myriad stars, nighttime's regime ... 

  As I took in this scene, I found myself
    riding a pounding ocean's foaming surf

  My peaceful stream naught but an estuary
    My oars commandeered by a playful faerie...

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Limerick: Once an Anchor Woman at Sea Anne-Anne

Once an Anchor Woman at Sea Anne-Anne
Interviewed OFPRA* doing Can-Can
She said: Will you?
OF said: You, too!
And they rowed off in a rude bed-pan.

•	Office français pour la Protection des réfugiés
 et d’apatrides (French Office for the Protection 
of Refugees and Stateless Persons)

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Daisy, Lilac, Roses bloom
Ripen fruit, green trees
Clean house, fresh scent 
Sugar bunny, candy sweet 

Beach party
Sweet fried foods
Dance songs, music beats
River water, kayak rowed 

Dried trees
Carve meats
Scary story
Trick, Treat

Small gifts
Sings carol 
Shiny light
Snowy night 



19/12/2017
Sponsor: Rhoda Tripp
Fem Bogstaver (Danish)...

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Discretionary Indiscretions
Written: by Tom Wright
11/25/00

Pray tell
how can this be;
That one
might opt to blunder,
Electing folly and improprieties,
Ultimately
casting soul asunder.
No matter
is the heart's intent,
The inevitable results,
are one and same.
If time in unrepented sin is spent,
twill be found rowed
neatly neath each name.
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I was witness to poetry in motion
amidst all the world’s chaos and humdrum

As the sun lazily rose from its eastern bowers
this bare backed man presented quite a picture

He gracefully lowered his oar with a soft swish
moving slowly looking for fish

Rowed his makeshift boat on scooter tyres
the lone kayaker on lake waters.



for Backwards poem contest by Matt Caliri...

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I rowed for what seemed like an hour;
the water gurgled oh so pleasantly.
I had the morning to myself:
no other boats as far as I could see.
Warmed up, I soon increased my stroke,
And pulled as I had never pulled before,
the legs on fire, heart thumping fast,
sweat ran in rivulets from every pore.
The timer dinged, so I got up,
flipped off the lights, and shut the basement door....

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Still grotesquely afloat
Belly ready to bloat
His last meal A Milked Oat
And then hard rowed a boat
But with a shot was downed
And the next thing was drowned!

His harsh look watchers note
And at it his foes gloat
And ample time devote
The perplexed by A Quote
He could not learn by rote …

Nor read what scholars wrote.

Rather in love with oat
And enthused about coat …

Now, helpfully The Drowned
For Book-free underground....

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Because the time of my life has come
I tried to row a boat on the lake side
I rowed out all the way to the small island of my destination
Why does not it proceed. The birds stayed in the boat and whispered
You are doing something useless.
A few days passed, I was thirsty
I caught the water on the lake. Fish were swimming there.
The fish whispered while laughing. The rope on the board
Because it was only tied.
I know that.
Rowing out was a problem....

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Various green shades     Among a million blades    Tall and thin    Blowing in the wind    Home for many a creature small      Watch your step so as not to fall     And if by chance you do      Look close and see ants marching in rows of two     Things exist some unable to see with the naked eye         Creeping, crawling and a few that fly       Thus brings to us an amazing world       All symmetrically rowed       All this and more in the  yard you just mowed!...

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NOAH'S ARK
shall i say this was a meeting
i comprehend how they made it-the snails
how gentle would they have been with snakes
how was the ark to keep the ever heated goats
without fantasy to the lion i sing an ode
never did he kill nor slain even with the tigers
they were gentle even to sparing the zebra
Noah's ark an example of what life is to be
even the insect had the chance to breath
the ark rowed on water never tempting to the fish
nor to Noah for it to become a dish...

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Washington crossed the icy Deleware
In 1776, on a freezing Christmas Eve
In a small boat, rowed by trusted soldiers
The course was changed, so it is believed.

They struck a blow for freedom
And surprised the British troops
The Crossing captured in large scale
By the German Emanuel Leutze

Its grand in size, 24 feet long
You must stop and sit and gaze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This artist's work surely will amaze.

Emanuel Leutze..1816-1869


For Brian's contest....

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