Steerage Poems - Poems about Steerage

... People anticipated, and waited for the day they could gaze upon my beauty, and that they did. The men adored me, the women admired me, and the children were in awe of me. Everyone loved me! I was......

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...Grandpa Francesco Proia, from Caserta, Italia, a clever stowaway in the bowels of the ship bringing him to Ellis Island, Feb. 4, 1905. Gruff ways, often snarling a guttural “Huh,” a lack of ......

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...He is watching an in-flight movie, staring at it in steerage as he fades away. The boarding procedures were too slow, there were delays. Tightly stringed tensions arose between ears and nose.......

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...Trailing naked toes, hat low peaked fingers laced abaft head and sun, white-water gently threading through the webbed keel of one foot. The sky is blasting blue, splotching louder blobs of cob......

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...I knew the day we met that we were meant to be I realized our destiny was set and she was the one for me She was rich in beauty but poor for she will die with it Her appearance nonplussed me and I......

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...At the birth of every male child, At his hair-cutting event styled, At first birth-celebrations wild; At his sister's ear-ring pomp, mild, At school when their admissions filed, Blasts the crumb......

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...You may have heard the 3rd class would dance and many among them did not stand a chance to be rescued out of the tragic Titanic disaster but have you heard more of their heroi......

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...From each according to his ability gains little traction in a world where ability is so obviously diminished just take an honest look around you sound bites are no longer protection against an e......

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...I'm Just Getting Started I'm just getting started, though I'm not in control, But I am all dressed and indubitably, very well-composed, virtuously loved by many, with honored ......

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...War of subtleties Terse battles Sanctioned victories Temporal losses Shooting blanks Dull blade Cassanova's gaze Mata Hari senses Jagger's "Moment has passed" Frost "Two roads diverged........

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...They hailed her as the empress of the waves Supreme upon the ocean’s vast domain, Yet those who watched her launch, and bid ‘Godspeed’, Could never have foreseen her fleeting reign. She left So......

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...Courage in Steerage and Porridge You will never read another limerick like this one. Was watching Cinderella when courage was mentioned. We heard she had so much courage; Was stuffed in sho......

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...Seafaring Foreigner In steerage on a steamer with Figs conceiving in Vesuvian soil Hidden in a pot of a sturdy trunk Made of hope and adventure. Fear of Sights unseen and joys unbeknownst O......

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...She couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door the third class cabin was modest but she thought it would do finally spen......

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...1. Not thrown out of the show business every year’s good and never less my age placed in his mind’s steerage I’m down to prove he won’t manage it is no different loving him I'm older but with th......

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