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Best Admiralty Poems

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Powder Monkey
The noose is a nightmare for any seafaring man
Especially those who thrive the best they can

Danger lurks on the waves like a mugger in the...

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Categories: admiralty, adventure, childhood, father, imagination,
Form: Ballad



War Grave, Name Unknown
Untimely death, why come so near
To taunt my soul with mortal fear.
I cannot go – so unprepared
So full of life and yet so scared.
The world’s...

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© May Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiralty, bereavement, betrayal, death, grave,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Henrey Morgan a Storm On the Spanish Main
Henry Morgan is my name
Being a pirate is my fame

A landlubber wasn't for me
Fortunes were made at sea

From port and starboard cannons roar
Through Spanish ships...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiralty, history,
Form: Couplet
The Lusitania (Part One)
More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiralty, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad
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: admiralty, life,
Form: Limerick



Who Fought Alone
Who fought Alone

Untimely death, why come so near
To taunt my soul with mortal fear.
I cannot go  - so unprepared
So full of life and yet...

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© May Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: admiralty, conflict, dark, death, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Gray-Eyed Prince
The birches and the lindens –

in hair have fire.

On the road is noise –

The white horse runs. 

Autumn, as a sorrow,

has spread everywhere.

Where, from whom

do...

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Categories: admiralty, song-autumn, me,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gallipoli
In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
  an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
  lie bones...

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Categories: admiralty, war,
Form: Sonnet
Lust In Love
Wriggled in her arms.
Lost in an adventure of romance, moving far afield.
Though I have no weakness for writing, 
my story got underway.
Wallowing in the admiralty...

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Categories: admiralty, anxiety, for her, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rms Lusitania
Those illegal acts
are sort against each other
who was right brother

Carrying ammo
playing outside of the rules
the Brits more fool them

No flags were flying
her identity disguised
wise decision,...

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Categories: admiralty, america, dark, grief, hate,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Woodlands Visit
A touching sip
Glimpses now grip
A Woodlands trip


Old times come round
Feel the same grounds
Old touch new found


A train ride tells
Styles a fond spell
Just where you dwell


A...

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Categories: admiralty, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Os Ted Briggs
Floating, adrift in icy water; like discarded driftwood
(his Commander, Warrand, bravely stepped aside to let him pass)
the sole survivor so thought Ted; of the proud...

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Categories: admiralty, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Waters-
The Waters
'Waters!' said I, 'thing of neap tide.'
To warn me about the marine
I crave the aquatic, Atlantic admiralty
Death shall bring reefs
Aboard seaborne ships
Waters, Lakes, Seas
All...

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Categories: admiralty, adventure, analogy, anxiety, environment,
Form: Free verse
Royalty On Shoulders of Loyalty
They don’t part with loyalty:
Members of The Royalty:
Raiders grabbing a booty:
Just judge it your First Duty…

Big fault of The Royalty;
You can’t dodge its penalty:
Of unpleasantness...

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Categories: admiralty, people, perspective, political, power,
Form: Rhyme

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