Best Ahoy Poems

'Twas a dark and stormy night on that dark and stormy night!
HMS Blunderbuss plied the billowing seas just off the Isle of Wight!
Able Seaman Steer manned the helm when dead ahead he saw the light!
He woke the snoozing Officer of the Deck to apprise him...

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Let's Go
Life's Slow...

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An aging old sea captain named Hook,
Was a bloodthirsty pirate and a crook.
He leaned as he stood,
On his left leg of wood,
And from only his right eye he did look....

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I thought for this'n I be a dodger,
But the Cap'n told me to hoist the Jolly Roger.

Skull 'n Bones on Black in the air,
Ye know, matey, that I be thar.

Me peg leg be a clompin' so loud,
Ye be sure to find me, even in a...

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Ahoy, matey! 
Welcome aboard me ship, 
Me would have met ye at the airport 
But, I've got meself a broken hip. 

Me crew, they be drunk 
Me parrot's got the sh!ts, 
Me wooden leg got caught on a rusty nail 
Me woman's got a hairy...

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On 4-15-12

        Sinking of the Titanic 

              Atlantic Ocean...

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[Written as a sort of sea shanty style thing-a-me-Bob. Tin Fish = Torpedo]


When the tin fish hit me starboard I was thrown into the sea
I sank down to the ocean bed for all eternity
I met a man called Davy Jones who handed me a key
I...

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we all want to fill life with fun and joy 
while some get it others remain bereft
why don’t we all win this journey, ahoy?
maybe each one is not equally deft

a pity, some don't grab a chance that comes
brooding it over, a sheer waste of time...

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I am a ship,
with a sail
reaching toward the ether and 
a rudder reaching back
through the water of centuries…
… ahead lies my harbor
of mystery within…...

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ahoy, where is polly

ahoy me matey~~where is that parrot~~that land lover stole me words

2019 December 28
*1st Place*
A thief who Steals your thoughts
~~Bobby May
*3rd Place*
Podium placement (1)
~~Brian Strand...

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( To a fellow local poet, Susan Booth, who is taking a sabbatical)

Blank page or white screen champing at the bit,
both restless for the whip of pen or key
mind struggling for a word or phrase that fit
the image that the inner self can see.
Sometimes one...

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It is not
a foregone conclusion,
but a reality;
even porcupines
know love—
without making pain
a subsidiary organism;

The pain of love’s waves
may forth ashore,
but the waves recede
and the forth dissipates,
leaving a sea of memories
floating on the ocean of life;

Yet, docked and anchored,
you can still set sail
to tomorrow, today; trust.

You are...

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Will
you take my hand
and voyage with me
upon this ship
discovery;
Will
you come aboard
and sail a sea
of uncharted waters,
fancy-free;
Will
you explore new sounds,
discover a place
unknown,with unique
imagery;
Will
you close your eyes,
let the canvas unfold,
and imagination pen..
poetry?...

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The ship heaved and lifted with the sea to fall back
In cock screwing motion the oaks creaking within
Staggering as wind swept the quarter-deck clean
Running spray of salt water blurring our vision 

Deserted looked the Black Knight, sails downed.
Shortened to by pass dark rain drenched night
‘Helm-man’...

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