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Abaft Poems - Poems about Abaft

Clouds Over Your Head
...clouds as fluffy as the whistling bliss encircling in the sky, eyes fonder and kiss abaft the hidden pillows of lace brightness over hays above Thy grace......

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Categories: abaft, creation,
Form: Couplet
A Dillydally Way
...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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Categories: abaft, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Groom In Bloom
...Down the dreamed aisle comes the bliss of your sight Cord of your life sinew of your might. Abaft the unending trek comes the longed outset A more colorful kismet under the glorified s......

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Categories: abaft, for her, for him,
Form: Sehra
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle
Lying Haiku
...We fly forever up high In our own blue sky Thru clouds, past rain, moon abaft......

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Categories: abaft, allegory, flying, inspiration, sky,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: abaft, analogy, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Kyrielle
Marked Wrists
...Behind those hidden marked wrists Are lies, skepticism and fears Behind those calloused, clenched fists Is a cauldron of uncontrollable tears. Behind those evident scars Is a constant cycle of......

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Categories: abaft, abuse, death, depression, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Eyes Turn Back
...I've courted luck, in countless ways Against the ragged judgments and self-umbrage I still draw breath, and the mirror has been charitable Most I meet deem me forty, (I don't......

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Categories: abaft, age, growth, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member to sail the sky -
... * For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness * ~ cast tie-lines to shadowy depths above meteors to plunge the ocean of suns ......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
The Wind Beneath My Wings
...The wind beneath my wings was a fart And excuse me is all I could say; Flying here where worlds apart As the good folk looked on in dismay. For they had expected much more, Loftier goals had b......

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Categories: abaft, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale
...All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over. There was a calmness but once before......

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Categories: abaft, home, sea, storm, sun,
Form: Prose
Lost At Sea
...The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked It would be fair time afore it sought the lee With the slams and the pitching the ship could be wrac......

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Categories: abaft, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse
My Dream 14yrs Old
...Enter to come Suffer into So I appeared Soused in my tripes A semblance cast School way in halls Visage of black Takes two steps to I ebb trail back Forthwith I flashed In bathroom stalls ......

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Categories: abaft, addiction, child, teen,
Form: Bio
Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner
... " Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner " {warbled to the Merry Tune: Jingle Bells!} Jingle Bells & Flyin' Hulls All sheets in so tight~ Yikes Ahoy! There's the ploy! Sail right through this nigh......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, me, may, me,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Struggle and Limits
...One day our ship will port in a place of peace and wonder. Abaft facing the wind and sails at rest. Limp from its journey, tired and sunder. The bolt rope holding it together. pushing stead course to......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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