Short Submarine Poems

pink coconut flu
jelly gale
flip elephant toe...

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infection gills
Gulliver's island
yellow submarine...

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Submarine sandwich
how hoagies were meant to be
satisfies hunger...

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Don’t know what’s coming
Blocks twist into strings; it’s here
Submarine stone mist

[Trust rhyme talk and fish]...

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Haiku
Ocean waters deep
Navy submarine hides out
Cruise missiles ready...

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Fadoodling

Vo dee oh doe past first base
Ride the rail!  Submarine race!
Rantum-scantum - all the way!
Fadoodling ~ Vo! Do!...

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Displacement, water
Submarine earthquake strikes land
Tsunami wave train



     http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature-6.php...

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There is a submarine periscope  
that's staring intently.  Let us hope 
that our frail little boat's 
got aboard stuff that floats.  
All I have is this Soap-on-a-Rope....

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bake the beans - navy.
stir the gravy thick.
blue’s wavy, pot tips.
savvy cook, seasoned,
floats the pan
ballast-crew chows down.

12/7/2017...

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We have a dear old friend, name of Cyrus
Went to China and got that darn virus
  Poor guy has been quarantined
  In a yellow submarine
Told him, "If you recover please wire us"...

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The final hours for them,
Five people in a submarine,
Waiting for death,
Can you imagine ?

No hope in their mind,
Dying is a lesson
anyone can learn.
They teach us that lesson....

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What if you need to go on a submarine
You're isolated for two or three months at sea
Don't tell the fishies
Pretend it's delicious
And you'll grow up to be a hero like me...

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While all parked in their separate places
Couples were watching the Submarine Races
Trying hard not to show their faces
The chicks with all of their graces
Put their tops back on - their Chantilly Laces!...

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Billions of tax dollars, for a useless curtain
             "Gringo, we just dig a tunnel to move our drugs under your fence"
                Been doing it for years, worthless a screen door on a submarine...

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Well here and now, I'm gonna come clean
There'll be no mistaking exactly what I mean
I love the young ladies
Though I'm in my eighties
Waiting to do battle with my anxious submarine


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Trump and Big Balloon 

Much of Trump's idiocy, he does expose,
And on his stupid face it so often shows;
Looks like goon,
On big balloon,
And after affairs with women really glows.

Jim Horn

Trump is a yellow balloon not submarine....

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deep sea
would be
new  bub
on sub
fall down
long frown
nerves shot
gut knot
crush depth
last breath
light red
hope fed
want live
may give
can’t bear
no air

2/13/2022

A Strand (1073) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand



inspired by the movie Black Sea...

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I have a rare disorder that causes me to see everyone in the cast of any submarine movie as Don Rickles. Every bloody person is Don Rickles. Once saw a submarine movie wherein a woman was saved from a sinking ship and the captain on the submarine made love to her and they both were Don Rickles....

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"Where are we?
I don't know, looks like the foothills.
The foothills of what?
The foothills of the head lands."
                                         The Beatles Movie The Yellow submarine


So many feet has covered this small hill,
but the young heads keep making;
playing till age is death....

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An Edward Hopper moment
finds her sitting there,
half in sunlight,
her legs, the best part
of an ordinary anatomy,
waving seductively,
like some submarine
predatory plant,
while the rest of her,
disguised by the late
afternoon shadows,
appears to read,
but shares the same hopes
as the legs....

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sappy valentine
brown-eyed largesse broke my heart
a little, too much—
godspeed ahead…my sailor
celebrates the day we met

February 2022

David and I met 42 years ago on Valentine’s Day
in Navy “A” school. He brought me to see the
submarine trainer - awooga awooga (or gaga for short ;)...

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“I’m familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this problem until it swims up and bites you on the a$$.”

—Jaws (Hooper)


idyllic setting.
   deep blue and Betty—
flotsam of the sea.
        submarine cruising—
its teeth for chewing
              curious mor-soul.

3/26/2021
not for contest...

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DAD BROUGHT

me valentine candy in the little heart-shaped box

me a glitzy pen when i was home sick

me and all of us security

me and my siblings love of mom

it

his stories: work and submarine

his heart

his tears

it

his quiet ways

his appetite

his woes

his smile

all of it

4/25/2023...

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I walk into the bar
And all my enemies are standing there,
Gleaming, with beers raised up.
I feel a quaking sense of distrust.
Forgiveness is leagues away.
And then suddenly I'm in a submarine
And no one can hear me, and this is much worse.
And then I wake up.
And now the need to change my life is fierce.
It was the submarine....

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Sam N. Fish fell in love with a mermaid
At the wedding her gills started to fade
  After a cup of water
  She said, I guess we 'ought-er'
Rent a submarine in the everglades...

Sam N. quickly looked into the matter
Saw that his bank book had to be fatter
  Sam bought some blue-chip stocks
  Then he got a huge shock
Market was underwater ~ so sad, sir...

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