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Best Crew Poems

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


Premium Member Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree
The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...

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Categories: crew, adventure, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: crew, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: crew, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: crew, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: crew, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: crew, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Along Dawn's Amber Shores
Dawn slowly awakened to supplant the moon
Empty, the canopy where stars had been strewn
   In repose, Luna slept after wandering velvet skies
 ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crew, poetry, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pirate Bay
```Pirate Bay the Haiku``` 

pirates fierce and mean 
drowning fish, sea to sea 
parrots on their butt 


```Polly Wants A Cracker``` 

bloodthirst & brutal 
Quartermaster...

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Categories: crew, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Haiku
Pun With Eggs
Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came...

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Categories: crew, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Star of the Show
Narrate you own life's story
and tell you own life's tale
Don't leave it up for grabs
or even up for sale!

Write down your own life's story
before the...

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Categories: crew, identity, life, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: crew, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: crew, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Orca's Revenge
A fishing boat left the port of Kinsale 
The rain was lashing and blowing a gale
Fishing grounds were in sight
Then they had a great fright
Along...

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Categories: crew, fishing, humor, sea,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS

Twelve  brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.

Of former days there is no...

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Categories: crew, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil's Tide
I looked up at a silver moon 
Peering through a cloud of misty gloom 
As we sailed across the Atlantic Sea 
That fateful night in...

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Categories: crew, adventure, angel, june, life,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things