Get Your Premium Membership

Best Admiral Poems

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


Premium Member Admiral Lord Nelson
Blessed with ingenuity, he fought advancing tyranny
That stormed the sea in twenty-three  great warships sailing furiously.

That day, October twenty-first, saw Admiral Nelson at his...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, courage, england, freedom, hero,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Stunning Revelations From Ancient Maps
Professor Hapgood’s studies on ancient maps were fixed
Einstein said his theories should be added to history’s mix
Perhaps it proved too big a leap for other...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, history, science, urbanlost, lost,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blue
 Blue can be icy like the arctic.
Cold yet passionate in its own way.
A blonde boy’s light blue eyes enticing,
A sleek Corvette hugging the highway.
 
Blue is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, color,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Monet's Water Lilies
Floating fluttering fleurs
are jewels in fuchsia and magenta
transmuting into taffy hue
with the kiss of dappled sunlight~
Like her cheeks that blush in pink
with his wondering wink......

Read more of this work...
© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiral, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Instauration
“Abandon ship and from her flee
Better her than all be lost to sea.”
“First Mate, be rendered silent,” is the captain’s plea
“Dear crew, I beg, depart...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, abuse, growing up, life,
Form: Ode



My Dog, Benbow
Somewhere beside the myrtle rose blooming white
By nutgrass overgrown, a palm tree sways in soft moonlight
Like an angel from the throne, and somewhere there
In your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, animalsdog, dog, time,
Form: Verse
Just Whiling Away
All before was green
The pool like glass, serene
Waterboatmen skated by
A Kingfisher flashed the eye

The Dragonfly mates on wing
As distant Warblers sing
The rushes bend and sway
As...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, nature
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cerulean Serenity
Time stood still with me
on aegean beach at tiffany twilight hours,
the senile sun sank in admiral splendor 
beyond  the lap of the lapis horizon,
the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, analogy, color, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Isles of Shoals
silent sea from afar
glazed in admiral and arctic blue
softly shifting to pointilism
as it rushes to the rocky shore
whilst sky in faded ivory and teal
spells prelude...

Read more of this work...
© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiral, appreciation, art, nature, sea,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Trailblazer
I was a classic 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, in mint condition, admiral and white.
My owner had other beautiful, classic cars, like stars sparkling into twilight.

My owner...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, appreciation, car, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sir Henry Morgan

Come all, sail along with me!
Welcome aboard to a Pirate's Ship of World History
I’ll be your story teller, to you I will relay
All about the...

Read more of this work...
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiral, courage, dedication, hero,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath
THE      ICEBREAKER     KRASIN    -     DAVID    AND...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, historyriver,
Form: Narrative
The Helicopter Flight
One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the...

Read more of this work...
© James Rudd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiral, adventurebody, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Pirate Paradox
I dream to be a buccaneer out on a sailing ship
Purple parrot on my shoulder sharp cutlass on my hip.

Sailing upon the seven seas it's...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, dark, deep, innocence, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To Horatio Nelson
Thou 
great 
son 
of 
the 
land!

Salute! 
Salute!! 
We 
Salute 
thee!!!
An 
unwavering 
patriot, 
undaunted 
mountain.
British 
admiral 
and 
nava 
hero.
Toulon 
submitted 
to 
thy 
naval 
prowess.
At 
Calvi,thy 
right...

Read more of this work...
Categories: admiral, tribute
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs