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Gunnels Poems - Poems about Gunnels

Premium Member Sea of Roses
...Our love began so sweet and expectant. Full of hope, becalmed in a sea of roses. The swell rose and fell gently enticing, a lover's waltz, a warm embrace. But the storm clouds gathered, the wind......

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Categories: gunnels, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grace Darling
...Grace Darling Tempest spits upon the gunnels But Grace Darling manhandles the paddles, To rescue the folks of the Forfarshire crash, Stranded on Farne Islands off Northumberland coast. ......

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Categories: gunnels, hero, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Verse



Kelso At Anchor
...Kelso has a boat smeared to the gunnels, with cawk and greasy weeds. Kelso is old enough to be free of care, his dog don't care neither. At the prow of dawn he hauls dripping lobsters in ......

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Categories: gunnels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Renoirs Fish
...Laid back over oarlocks, arms akimbo, hat slouched; slow riding the Loire. The river pushes into a bobbing place a sylvian picnic where female bottoms convene in soft repose. Iridescent t......

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Categories: gunnels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Boat Broke
...Somewhere between an in and out wave, my boat broke; it's an essential scaled down vessel of my body - I become somewhat alarmed. Water being almost always in a fluid state did the unexpected ......

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Categories: gunnels, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Fog and Water
...Fog slow-dances over the inlet until water and air waltz together. Too early to tell if any birds are awake besides, my ears are muffled in the wet air. Grebes and Coots colonize this tributary,......

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Categories: gunnels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a captain's confession -
... Many now, the years have passed, Since I found my heart at sea, And never have I shared the tale That I now will grant to Thee ... We'd been a-sail for fifty weeks - Chasing blues and fins a......

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Categories: gunnels, adventure, horror, mystery, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Kelso At Anchor
...Kelso has a boat smeared to the gunnels, with cawk and greasy weeds. At a prow of dawn he hauls dripping lobster, and their pots up the scummy steps of the silty stone harbor, pushing a bar......

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Categories: gunnels, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Aliens
...Methinks aliens are preparing to invade earth Warning, this gives us time to prepare, for what it's worth Man the gunnels Prepare the tunnels Some may perish but I'll still provide the mi......

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Categories: gunnels, courage,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Aliens
...Methinks aliens are preparing to invade the earth Warning, this gives us time to prepare, for what it's worth Man the gunnels Prepare the tunnels Some may perish but I'll still provide th......

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Categories: gunnels, dark,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 5
...'Camp Chippewa, ' its tennis and rifle range, X-Class sailing, And classic 'Old Town' canvas covered wooden canoes, Not the low-class aluminum canoes of a 'Camp Thunderbird.' Cass Lake - garden ......

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Categories: gunnels, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Now That You'Ve Gone
...Oh the air is not so sweet today, Nor, I fear, will it be tomorrow, For disgruntled love has left the fray Of tortured wills that brought both sorrow. Are yesterdays now just memories, (Th......

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Categories: gunnels, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The Merchant Ship
...Deep ocean of azure blue Overhead seagulls circling flew In constant motion, heaving sides The old merchant ship upon it rides Rust scorched it's barnacled coat Salt encrusted railings......

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Categories: gunnels, adventure, sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
Suicide Bus
...Any one for the 8-10 to Allepo His suicide lorry packed to the gunnels there hoisted on his own petard another loved up modern muslim the stupid silly selfish silly bastard What a waste one man in......

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Categories: gunnels, religion,
Form: Couplet
The Boat On the Rocks
...No hero me only in my dreams A pleasant night out Coast walk with my lady People mesmerised and all just looking Watching a boat drifting onto the rocks Somebody must be doing something Boat st......

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Categories: gunnels, adventureme, boat, me,
Form: I do not know?

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