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Skiff Poems - Poems about Skiff


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SKIFF blue hull abandoned in its twilight days sailing the sea, no more sadly, left upon the shore "the fishing boat of an old salt" June 6, 2022 Pyramids Poetry Contest Sponsored by Joseph May Image #1...

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Categories: skiff, boat,
Form: Verse
Skiff In a Low Place
The hull lolls, anchored to a fouling current. Juggernauts of heat sleep under a leaden sky, bugs lurch and slow skirt. I nod over my spine, afloat on a humming haze. An osprey jumps out of a high ambit, swooping fast. I imagine a wind in the wake of its wings. The bird dives, cleaves the light, arrow bright parting the weight of these...

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Categories: skiff, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 12 Foot Skiff
oars barely skim the surface skiff glides smoothly as if floating on the dense fog cormorants perch on pilings silence broken by hungry gulls rising sun glistens water salt air invigorates my being memories engulf me...

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Categories: skiff, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River
Herons fragment the mist, appear and disappear while remaining motionless. The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past. A dewy sky shivers. Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio. This morning the sun reached the top of a willow and got stuck. He rowed toward the bank thinking to get under the tree, filled an imaginary pipe full of...

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Categories: skiff, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Skiff -Goethe Stanza
When the wind is just right and sky is clear of dark clouds I take sail. Skiff takes me to where the fish lie This early morning I can’t fail...

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Categories: skiff, boat,
Form: Rhyme




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