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Best Crewmen Poems

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Premium Member Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.

Once...

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Categories: crewmen, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Only a Lighthouse
How black the seas in a pounding storm!
   The lanterns were all blown out.
Only the lights within still burned
   For crewmen...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crewmen, sea,
Form: Quatrain
The Friendly Skies
Talk about a frightful flight
I think it was last Thursday night
I was heading out of town for work
Our flight attendant went berserk
Instead of the normal...

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Categories: crewmen, social, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Scotland
SCOTLAND

Very big sign on highway A1   going southways    
Out of Scotland into England,  
Painted with thistles, tartans, bagpipes, ...

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Categories: crewmen, places
Form: Verse
What a Sacrifice Sublime
About two thousand years ago
In the early morning hours of a cool day
When the wind was calm and the Sun had just 
Started showing his...

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Categories: crewmen, inspirationalbooks, boat, books, journey,
Form: Free verse
Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space
Retrorockets blasted
Spaceship settled down
Soft landing on a planet 
Dust plumes swirling ‘round.

Crewmen tested atmosphere
Before exiting the door 
Donned cumbersome spacesuits
With a planet to explore.

Soon, strange...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crewmen, science fiction
Form: Rhyme



The Lusitania (Part Two)
Explosions rock the boat;
Ocean gushes inside.
The battered stern won't float,
All controls lock their slide.

Listing fifteen degrees,
The lifeboats fail to launch.
Swift decent lugs a squeeze
Impossible to...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crewmen, history, war
Form: Ballad
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 9
Legend Of The Black Dove  

                  (Part...

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Categories: crewmen, adventure, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
The Eye of the Sea - Part 3
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 2


The heaving swell and the waves from hell
Soon swamped our valiant vessel,
With the holds in flood: tattered...

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Categories: crewmen, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
Odyssey From Africa 11e
Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)

Matto, Lisa and their parents 
Contemplated now a journey 
On the ocean that was longer 
Far than...

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Categories: crewmen, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
So Far From Home
So Far From Home
Under a curving shimmering blue fish bowl sky the small Patrol Torpedo boat cruises gentle summer swells in the distant Pacific, under...

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Categories: crewmen, conflict, death, freedom, history,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 12d, 13a
Chapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.)

As they held their breath and waited 
For a flame to catch the fire flowers 
Finally a smoky ribbon
Drifted upwards from the petals
 
Gradually...

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Categories: crewmen, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Raging Storm
Waves pummeled her bow, causing the schooner to rock
as a tempest wind heaved its feral breath into her sails.
The crewmen were steadfast, but had the...

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Categories: crewmen, storm,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Words
Words being more than a mare thought
Thinking with an understanding within sought
Education being a source for an intellectual vibe
It’s all about feeling inspired and just...

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Categories: crewmen, dedication, destiny, devotion, education,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In Search of a Sun Dome
Here are four survivors of a rocket that had crashed.
For a great distance, they had walked through rain that had splashed
so long, and so hard,...

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Categories: crewmen, adventure, science fictionrain, men,
Form: Rhyme