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Starboard Poems - Poems about Starboard

Premium Member Sailboat
...Sailboat sails set starboard sheets taut west winds ten knots wheel steady in my hand not a cloud in the blue sky fresh salt air ......

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Categories: starboard, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Take a Trip from Reality
...Embrace the sea, Far out, a salty binge of air. Embrace the sea - Take a trip from reality. I’ll find a beach, beyond compare, Where natives play with much fanfare. Embrace the sea. Coconut ......

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Categories: starboard, sea,
Form: Rhyme



the end of everything
...The end of everything The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been the master of the vessel, a friendship between the animat......

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Categories: starboard, age, art, books, break
Form: ABC
Premium Member Mother
...M a y I, you may play dress up with showers treat your crown to flowers trade in the cold for warmer hours M a y I, you may tiptoe outside whisper to the zephyr eye ......

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Categories: starboard, flower, may, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tuckered and Tucked In-dodoitsu string
...tuckered and tucked in with him ebb and flow of pillow head personalities have dreams we walk on the sea we see no sun, with eyes shut lily pads and no frog legs and the sky’s a blinding blue......

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Categories: starboard, sleep,
Form: Dodoitsu



Echoes Of The Silent Shore
...There come those nights—you know the sort: The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window, Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song th......

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Categories: starboard, love, metaphor, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Untitled
...there was a young man from Altoona who went to the ocean to catch tuna the boat lurched to starboard he was flung overboard and he met a shark that was out to catch humans ......

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Categories: starboard, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Forewarning of Dawn
...A bird that dips and wavers Over lone waters round, Then with a cry that quavers Is gone—a spectral sound. — Cale Young Rice Sopping wet, the organ floats, flounders in one o......

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Categories: starboard, dark, scary, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Yellow Words
...Yellow Words—Used 10 times in the poem Under the warm yellow sun floating on the calm Yellow Sea fishing for the sweet tasting yellow fin tuna. My mouth waters at the thought of tuna steaks sl......

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Categories: starboard, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Flying Dutchman
...Hoisted high Black flags sail, Camouflaged by a misty veil, A bow braced with forward guns, Upon a ship no-one outruns, This sight was seen through a scope, A view of horror crushing all hope, ......

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Categories: starboard, dark, death, myth, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Sand Castle
...You ran roughshod over my sandcastle Without a flicker of commotion diverting the starboard and finding ourselves at a yawning beach Did you see yourself as a seashell Did you cast an encha......

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Categories: starboard, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanishing
... and in my meditation I float in an aura purple I swirl among and above the clouds beyond my earthly realm and come to land upon a sandy shore I see my sail boat waiting, beckoning to me ......

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Categories: starboard, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member wait for Wendy
... ~ for J.M. Barrie ~ I’ll wait … you know I will - I’ll wait for you … here … but not a single instant longer than forever I’ll ply the puffy sky for the breath of you (for that world w......

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Categories: starboard, adventure, analogy, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am a Force of Nature
...I visit the bug zapper on Tuesday much to the radiology teams delight I named it thus before meeting it formally my comedic self puts up this type of dust If you make fun of it enough it can......

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Categories: starboard, business,
Form: Free verse
A Shipwreck She Salvaged
...She came aboard my sinking ship a death blow to the bow, attempts to bail and keep afloat this mariners tattered sails. Plot a new course and navigate in storms and angry seas, this vessel li......

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Categories: starboard, change, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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