Best Albatross Poems

Fishing one day in the southern ocean
The sun had risen and was shining bright
Overhead me I heard a commotion
A snowy albatross gliding in flight.

With a huge wing span he circled around
The haul on my deck had caught his keen eye
Out of all the boats it...

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feathers and bones at rest
                             a belly full of plastic
       ...

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Farewell. Great lady of the sea,
your sad expression impressed
against the wry wind screen,
your final moment fixed
within a haunting mind. One by
one the family file out, dazed,
yet the radiator to be checked,
the headlights and paint work
to be inspected, red, yellow and
blue entrails to be rid of,...

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Feathered wings to slice the sky
leaving a cloud residue trail
Shadow the size of a dime on the water
blends into the waves as they sail
Perfume of ancients in salt crested waves
carried toward heavenly things
Rise up like fury to catch the next trip
on the back of the...

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She chases her tail
She listens for his breathing
She hears each his lies
She hears each his lies
His false shadow, painted skin
Listen, quiet, still
Blue feathers, hidden
Glory birds, gold and orange
Listen, quiet, still
She hears each his lies
Monkeys running through the trees
Listen, quiet, still
She chases her tail
Drying paint on...

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Lady Albatross
              Our love span long on the wing
                       ...

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albatross bathed 
   in golden rays -
   picture takes pride of place...

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You float and soar the skies
riding the winds thermals
vast oceans you travel
majestic and mysterious

Thought by mariners of old
to be a harbinger of death
the sight of you a sign of doom
a bird bringing ill fate

How could anything so beautiful
have earned such ill repute
yet mariners feared you...

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Set to the Albatross, by Fleetwood Mac. (Hum along).

On love and astral travelling,
Through the stars we're wandering,
On the Universe we're pondering,
My eternal love, Napoleon,
Intangible man, but full of fun,
Our jewelled cloak of stars,
We've journeyed from afar,
Shape shifting, glittering,
On love and astral travelling,
I'm no Carlos Santana,
I...

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They called you Grandma - 
                   matriarch of Taiaroa Head. 
Your husband of seventeen years, 
 Blue-Green,
 named after the colours of the bands 
  ...

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Along the alleys of my old village
a squalid dog followed me
flee-bitten, rabbit-faced

Give me some leavings, he whined
just a bit of left-over heart
I am starving to death.

I was coming from the poultry shop
so I gave him some chicken giblets.
He said, Now you are mine

since I ate...

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There was an albatross Jack Jack 
He hung around Patricia's neck 
When her husband came 
A matter of shame 
On her cheeks he began to peck...

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THE ALBATROSS
Under thunder blows a colder wind, across an endless sea,   
Like a voice from the call of a far off shore in the solitude we perceive; 
For ago remained an innocent age, torn away by a thousand years
Where sincerity alone is tied...

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With wings spread wide, above the tide
He soared amongst the clouds
The sea breeze blew and there he flew,
The mighty albatross

He flew to meet an ancient ship
The ice it could not cross
Save noble bird, the saviour
The mighty albatross

The ice began to melt away
The path ahead to...

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Find me where the albatross dives deep,
to rescue sailor's souls as maidens weep.
My time to brave the gales is at an end.
To golden shores I'll sail on softer wind.
My bones lie deep beneath the turquoise sea.
In Davy's locker; that's where you'll find me.



01/18/17
Contest: Find me...

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