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Best Aboard Poems

Below are the all-time best Aboard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of aboard poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: aboard, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree
The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...

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Categories: aboard, adventure, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: aboard, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: aboard, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aboard, adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: aboard, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Midst of Life - Fragility of Dreams
A lovely night beneath the stars
   with ocean waves glazed by the moon;
nearby, the music of guitars
   strums soft, a melancholy...

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Categories: aboard, assonance, death,
Form: Quatrain
Splash of Black
Jesus Savior...Pilot Me from walkinginsunlight.com



Across the blackest waters 
ripples of pain,
swell into an anguish splashing 
against the blackest shore, 
and in the rustling of brittle...

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Categories: aboard, boat, faith, metaphor, pain,
Form: Free verse
Gold Star
I remember as a young boy, going out to play, I would sometimes see old Mr. Kimball, sitting on the steps of his porch, often...

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Categories: aboard, childhood, war, war, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS

Twelve  brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.

Of former days there is no...

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Categories: aboard, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil's Tide
I looked up at a silver moon 
Peering through a cloud of misty gloom 
As we sailed across the Atlantic Sea 
That fateful night in...

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Categories: aboard, adventure, angel, june, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Sheep Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aboard, adventure, animal, christmas, december,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What Could Be
If I had a clone
I surely would be
exuberant
flamboyant and fancyfree
I would sing and dance
for the whole world to see
aboard every single cruiseship
on every sea
I would...

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Categories: aboard, dream, fantasy, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hook Line and Sinker
Me, my brother Tom and Uncle Pat were on a fishing holiday
three men in a rowing boat way out in Dublin Bay
we anchored up and...

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Categories: aboard, crazy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Visit From Santa Claus
It was Christmas Eve, not a soul made a sound,
And not so much as a mouse could be found,
The children had hung their stockings on...

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Categories: aboard, christmas, eve, fantasy, holiday,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs