Best Around The Horn Poems

For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
 (Part One)

I've ate Eden's last apple, coveted Jason's* golden fleece
chained myself in caverns of darkness, begging no release
refused mighty crowns of power, fed myself painful feasts
crushed my beating heart, as if it were...

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Mystique Lady and the Unicorn  (collaboration ~NIKKO)

by: NIKKO

An invisible string was created from the beginning of time,
it is wound around my horn, and bound to your heart
Invincible.
Each time your heart beats, you tug at this string,
drawing me closer to you

You are unaware of this,...

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An invisible string was created from the beginning of time,
it is wound around my horn, and bound to your heart
Invincible.
Each time your heart beats, you tug at this string,
drawing me closer to you

You are unaware of this, I love you
yet I fear and resist you,...

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Life is oh so Short
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In the fall of 1803,
The good ship, “The Queen Ann’s Knees”
Sailed out on the bounding seas.
Out of sight of the land
The captain looked grand
As with little ado
He spoke to his crew:
“Men, I’ve nothing to hide!
You all may have noticed how wide
Is that big blue thing...

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How some students grew up on the Computor? 
and can't function in the real world right click the bus mommy and place it at the 
stop it is taking much too long to come around the horn. form method="post" 
This paragraphic is free to be...

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The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.

The routes ‘round the Capes 4
Were long in treacherous waters
Hampered by Portuguese carracks
And...

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A Month of Sundays

Sunday I had a dream 
And Monday I had to work
Tuesday I shone a beam
Wednesday nowhere to park
Thursday I shed a tear
Friday wept alone in the dark
Saturday was full of fear
Sunday I walked in the park
Monday I couldn’t wake
Tuesday spam and pasta...

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My ship is set to sail next morn
We are headed around Cape Horn 

Can’t say I welcome this trip much
Ten thousand leagues or somewhat such

Liverpool  to Shanghai for tea
British Sterling’s the master key

The world  loves the Fujian black leaf
Of China’s many kinds it’s...

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Since Brig Copenhagen was only four 
days out of Liverpool, there remained some
distance to cover. Because it was more
nearer winter bad weather had to come.
Ship needed to reef sails before they tore.          
The menace of icebergs...

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I was chosen before my time.
Listen very close this is not just a rhyme.
My life was known before I was born yet,
Time had to come around the horn.
Now I am here with a job to do,
Part of my job is to watch over you.
Yes I...

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I wanted to see sailing ships again so I went to Dana Point  last week to revisit  the Brig Pilgrim, gift from Denmark to the United States honoring  Henry Richard Dana’s voyage around Cape Horn in 1835. A brig is a ship...

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I was drifting west through old Wyoming,
to see if ranches were hiring,
it had been some weeks since I’d gotten work,
sought a new scene to see what it might bring.

I was somewhere just east of Yellowstone,
the sun settled, it soon would be dark,
in the shadows I...

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This is a Rosarian Sonnet in pentameter


I wanted to see a new sailing ship.
To Dana Point I went, just a short trip,
I toured  the Brig Pilgrim, gift from Denmark
to the United States honoring great
Henry Richard Dana;s voyage of late.
It was around Cape Horn they...

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Now lady fair watched Segundo walk beams
and she felt shudder go up spine with sight.
This Segundo, with balance fine it seems,
walked rails as he walked colonnade just right.
Bald male, now making conversation light,
asked Jose simple question speaking low.

"This new captain you mentioned, Don Hernandez, this
Frank...

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