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Overboard Poems - Poems about Overboard

Premium Member His Overboard Tale
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time. —H.P. Lovecraft, The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre His Overboard Tale My captain bellows, “heave-ho.” Off the plank I go, overboard. I plunged into the night, entangled in aberrant irises of the deep. When my abject insanity rewinds, I wish that I...

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Categories: overboard, fear, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overboard
She is but a passing shadow flitting across the moonlit sea Wandering waves roaming their ripples in search of her next ship to board Steered by starlight she journeys to fresh horizons constellations mapped many moons ago with no route to a harbor or home Yet, a paradox in this pattern of flight a sudden urge to reach for the ties severed by her departure With each anchored vessel and fleeting bond formed her endless...

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Categories: overboard, angst, blue, irony, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Are You Overboard, My Love
Why couldn't we be best friends my love Our hearts afire, once matched like a glove Yet your eyes are now distant from me Be best friends my love, why couldn't we I've been the straightest arrow you know I loved you from your head to your toe Lately your love for me is narrow You know, I've been the straightest...

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Categories: overboard, best friend, hurt, lost
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Overboard
A summer house-boat party - Matey - toss those cares overboard. The scout boat found a deserted cove so the party can be privately fierce. The lake's broken reflections of moonlight look like jewels on black satin. There are all kinds of drinks - ALL kinds - and herbal refreshments flare like lightning bugs. It isn’t long...

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Categories: overboard, 12th grade, dance, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overboard
Overboard (commentary on the January 6, 2021 capitol invasion) By Franklin Price 01/17/2021 Many have gone overboard, as we sail the ship of state What Donald Trump did on the sixth, was far from being great I'm not convinced, the reason why, was somewhat justified I'm not convinced the vote was fair, and honesty defied For whatever reason, lower courts denied it all The...

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Categories: overboard, america, anger, angst,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member To Be Thrown Overboard Soon
Two scruffy pirates picked me up. Intending to toss me overboard. I weighed too much; they were struggling. True. They needed to lighten their load. But I was not going easy. I purposefully got heavier. "She is flotsom," the tall fat one said. "Jetsam," the dumb ugly one argued. "Let's get a dictionary," I said. "Let's do this right." This gave me a few more...

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Categories: overboard, fun, humorous, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Went Overboard
Overreacted to what Was placed within the Current path Went emotional overboard With reactions as of late Emotions took brief control Over the heart of the matter Then crazy fogs has passed Leaving claim in its Wake Thank god in heaven...

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Categories: overboard, change,
Form: Lyric
Overboard
Overboard Knocked overboard by my brother the leech, I awoke to find myself on a beach, covered in seaweed and sand. I’ll ruin his plans; I’ll fight and survive, with no real supplies, I’ll conquer and thrive, till justice I’ll demand. On a tall windy hill, I built my shack; out of the swamps; away from bugs attack, beside the volcano. On hilltops perch, my...

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Categories: overboard, adventure, betrayal, life, success,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Overboard
Jonah fled from God because he didn't want to warn the Ninevites. But he finally came to his senses, Jonah soon saw the light. Jonah went aboard a ship and Jehovah God caused a terrible storm. When God gave Jonah the mission to carry out, he refused to conform. The ship was in terrible danger because Jonah had angered...

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Categories: overboard, bible, god, religious, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Overboard
You bob up and down In the vast blue sea Standard and alone Chilled to the bone Can’t feel your legs Finger all numb As you pray to god for someone to come Too painful to cry No energy to shout Pretty clear time is running out Thinking of your family All of your friends life slowly coming to a bitter end with no fight left and...

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Categories: overboard, courage, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Man Overboard
My bedroom has been flooded and now I'm drowning in my thoughts. Questions of what is and what isn't floating about like hundreds of jellyfish. They wait for me to venture out so that they can sting me and send me sinking into the abyss that is my very own mind. There are also two sharks, Loneliness and Depression. The scent of blood in...

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Categories: overboard, angst, confusion, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Overboard
Im happy as long as im free so why live by admiralty? im not on a boat my thoughts make me float this continent isnt a sea...

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Categories: overboard, life,
Form: Limerick
Throw Jonah Overboard!
God has already prepared a big sea fish; So, throw Jonah overboard. You will make promises to this God After you throw Jonah overboard. The wild squall will finally be calmed When you throw Jonah overboard. Pray to God for what you're about to do And throw Jonah overboard. You won't be able to row back to land; So throw Jonah overboard. Though the sea...

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Categories: overboard, adventure, education, faith, natural
Form: Blank verse
Man Overboard
Constantly trying to get something for oneself-- Sit down, you're rocking the boat. Constantly trying to have the last word-- Sit down, you're rocking the boat. Constantly judging yourself and others-- Sit down, you're rocking the boat. Remember, you are never lost at sea. Simply sit down in the boat and allow the mothering waves to embrace...

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Categories: overboard, funny, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Overboard In Love
On the icy edge of never where she turned down every try, he pursued his great endeavor with a twinkle in his eye. Never take no for an answer, was his motto to the end, for he was a great romancer, hiding out as just a friend. In the middle of the Harbor, swimming with her in July, he expressed his growing ardor, giving blatant truth...

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Categories: overboard, funny, love,
Form: Couplet

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