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Wharf Poems - Poems about Wharf


Premium Member TIME WHARF AIRLINER
An Airliner on its regular schedule It seems the Airliner was stuck in an anywhere time module The Airliner would take off in fligh5t in the present, but would go from current into unknown times The flight would be smooth The destination was supposed to be from Los Angeles to Chicago The passengers, Pilot and entire Flight crew themselves going...

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Categories: wharf, adventure, anxiety, assonance, business,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meditations On a Derelict Wharf
The tide worn and barnacled pylons holding up the wharf wobble on a sea swell like loose teeth. Most of the decking planks are missing. Those that remain span joists with bones of rotted wood fastened down with rust. A chain wire fence bars public access and a large red sign screams a message of danger. I find myself looking through the wire, asking...

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Categories: wharf, age, hope, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pare Wharf
On the seawall a rocky jutting shore and white breasted gulls and shags flit the sky. Yes, there was a time but not anymore I gazed the stars over Whenuapai. Crazed by lunar tide and hearts asunder - some Anglo-Saxon lass or native girl, or some legless dumb fool fallen under feeding the fishes...

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Categories: wharf, memory, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Beautiful San Francisco
Beautiful San Francisco In Northern California, By the Bay, There it is, That beautiful city, It’s the city Tony Bennett Sings of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Those lovely trolley cars, Make it so unique, Nob Hill, a street we all know, Fisherman’s Wharf, an interesting Array of shops, That famous Golden Gate Bridge, My Dad told us he sailed by it On his way to Korea, During the...

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Categories: wharf, beautiful, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Canary On the Wharf
There once was a canary who hung out at the wharf It was his fort of sort Where there were boats A float Tied up at the dock Waiting for laborers on the clock But this canary on the wharf Always wondered his worth Taking a day To visit Lord Barclay Pondering what he would say...

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Categories: wharf, appreciation, boat, business, england,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Too Fishy Here
This place smells nasty to me Any place I’d rather be Fisherman Wharf, yes, I know. Fresh everything caught below. Pungency of fish galore Smell I truly do abhor Shrimp tastes too fishy for me. To Midwest I’d rather be....

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Categories: wharf, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Jueju
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is much further then they thought, and they move to the beach and remove there shoes feeling the cool evening sand...

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Categories: wharf, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
Fisherman's Wharf
Salty, Windy, Dense, And thick. Even the black-and-white checkered Sink Smells like fish....

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Categories: wharf, travel,
Form: Free verse
Wharf Stoush
Wharf Stoush Twenty years ago I drove a bus, day or night, For Brisbane council yes I drove blue Panthers I'm no skite, To New Farm Wharf I drove a load of passengers, orright, But one big Wharfie picked on me, and ordered me to fight, He said I drove a cattle truck, I agreed that he...

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Categories: wharf, adventure, me, me,
Form: Monorhyme
Lovell's Wharf
To Lovell's Wharf Warwick and I would go, In need to find what little of our selfs was left, After the storm-passions of domestic life had carved their share. Answering the call, as mating birds do, we took up the song, Beating rhythmically across her waters, To follow her scent riding high on the wind, To amble gently to her...

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Categories: wharf, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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