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Tankers Poems - Poems about Tankers

Away From Home
...Years have gone by and I still cannot keep steady in the sky You have been working on me For more than half a century going up and down the galaxy floating in the air and you have left me suf......

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Categories: tankers, absence, abuse, age, business,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Please
...On a passing fast-moving train, there was quite a scene. I smiled and waved with the feel of warmth in my bloodstream. Two white tankers had words in brown saying, 'Vanilla Flavor'. They did not r......

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Categories: tankers, food,
Form: Rhyme



Queen Mary
...I travel beyond the depth of time trying to figure out what is mine. I float on the surface of the sea with the sun spilling its radiant energy all over me. I drift for days, fighting against big......

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Categories: tankers, beauty, blue, boat, business,
Form: Narrative
Planet Norway
...Planet Norway calling We see a TV program from Norway, a smallish nation bent on becoming green, building windmills on top of mountains and in the sea, filling the landscape with rotating blades......

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Categories: tankers, absence, age, birth, candy,
Form: Blank verse
Song of the Soldier
...Hey Mr. President tell us don't we have the right To question your authority when you send us off to fight? Are we never to answer when we hear our brother's cry And must we all be silent as you m......

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Categories: tankers, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Wyre
...Going home across the Shard bridge spanning a rattle-snaked river that bites into the Irish sea cold-bloodedly pumping into Fleetwood's gaping fish-mouth. Here birthmarks are branded wit......

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Categories: tankers, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Unpredictable Sea
...A giant magnet for young and old Its many mysteries to unfold For dipping toes in ebb and flow Revealing wonders deep below Calm and still like mirrored glass Then raging wild a storm can blast ......

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Categories: tankers, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
...I saw a man die who took a stance I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance I saw the boycotts and the embargoes I saw trafficking in human cargos I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil and......

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Categories: tankers, history, world,
Form: Couplet
The Midnight Show
...Today is good but tomorrow will be better Today my heart is heavy but tomorrow it will be lighter Sweat is oozing out of my body dripping from my hands and face Soaking my shirt as if I was runnin......

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Categories: tankers, appreciation, care, confidence, dark,
Form: Narrative
Black Civil War: Book 1-3
...I saw a thousand guns Numbered like the sand of the seashore Bowing down slowly To the half of a yellow sun Staring at them with gestures That spoke silent words of praise In an unbelievable fu......

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Categories: tankers, africa, anger, conflict, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Nightfall In the Shanties of Lagos
...Before dusk, Before dark when the rustle of the day is dawn Inbetween those tankers, you will see them In the robes of odour Decorating the hollow corners of fear Their faces, carries no pity......

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Categories: tankers, 8th grade, discrimination, environment,
Form: Free verse
Of Deep State and Worshipers of Satan - Lords of the World
...Saša Milivojev OF DEEP STATE AND WORSHIPERS OF SATAN LORDS OF THE WORLD The Ancient of the Days, can you see what he is wearing, Cardinal shoes made of children’s skin wrung out fr......

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Categories: tankers, cry, deep, humanity, pain,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Common Good
...A funny thing happened to or with me this morning during the 11 O'clock hour. During the few moments that I was watering our lemon tree, a train went back. This was the Amtrak and not the commercial ......

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Categories: tankers, america, pain, self,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Are We Living In the Last Days
...Are we living in the last days? That expression "last days" or end times, where does it come from? From a passage in the Bible, at 2Timothy 3:1. There the Apostle Paul relates a prophecy about wh......

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Categories: tankers, age, corruption, life, society,
Form: Didactic
How I Remember Maine
...a vulgar morning unveiling the naked fragrance of sun-burnt dog turds. It came to me, played tunes on the cords in my nostrils until my left eye caught them hiding ......

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Categories: tankers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

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