Best Ensign Poems
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 transporter room where I'd dematerialize
And within seconds......
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Categories:
ensign, science fiction, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Asp of Grief
...ASP OF GRIEF
She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She holds her abdomen in her a......
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Categories:
ensign, beauty, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Star Trek and Captain Kirk's Final Frontier
...Kirk: ‘Lt. Uhura, come to my quarters at 1800 hours’
Uhura: ‘Yes captain, might I ask what’s up?’
Kirk: ‘Nothing now but something WILL be at 1800 hours’
Bones: ‘Jim, is this a medical issue?’
Kirk: ......
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Categories:
ensign, parody, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Tin Can Sailors
...The mighty 3rd to the north did steam,
Chasing a ghost not to be seen
Guard the landing your task assigned,
Quiet the day is to be benign
At dawn the Imperial fleet does appear,
Surprise com......
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Categories:
ensign, courage, inspirational, remember, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Yin and Yang of Doubtful Bay
...A subtle march hush saddles the valley
whilst dawn’s reveille is the seagulls call
staid water’s brim against ancient galley
once flew the ensign how the mighty fall.
For here she lie ‘o’ top of ......
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Categories:
ensign, sea,
Form:
Quatrain
The Moon Also Rises - the Midwatch
...The Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch
Harry Mayer
The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.
“I’ll take that bet and ......
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Categories:
ensign, humor, military, sea,
Form:
ABC
SS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea
...
Built in a Belfast shipyard
for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line.
On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee
flew the Southern Cross ensign,
down a slipway to the sea
launched afar by Her Majesty
......
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Categories:
ensign, childhood, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
One In a Million
...One in a million, gazillion, bazillion
Worth more than gold dollars a trillion or a billion –
You are my beacon, a Christian, love driven.
No heathen, no herdsman, no huntsman or felon.
No elfin,......
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Categories:
ensign, devotion, family, husband, lovelove,
Form:
Rhyme
Dorm Love
...Ours was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight......
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Categories:
ensign, culture, gender, history, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Star Trek 3 and a Half, the Wrath of Klingon Commander Kruge
...STAR TREK REVIEW
Star Trek 2: Kirk has a grand battle with a villain from the original series. Spock
dies saving the ship and his body is deposited on the Genesis Planet where an
experimental techn......
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Categories:
ensign, funny, science fiction, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Fighting Temeraire
...The fighting Temeraire
I fought at Trafalgar yet this is my reward
dragged to the scrap yard a dagger in my heart
The red ensign flew proudly by reputation was high
My crew and my captain sp......
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Categories:
ensign, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Confronting Soul Betrayal
...Confronting betrayal midst guilt admission
my soul accepts God’s instruction*
never redefining it based on my notion...
I'm warned of such wrong commotion
that can lead to my destruction......
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Categories:
ensign, character, christian, devotion, faith,
Form:
Didactic
Heroes All
...On the 70th of VJ Day we salute the Forgotten Service the Red Ensign heroes
of the longest battle of all, the whole war: the only good war for Freedom's cause.
When a merchantman got hit, th......
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Categories:
ensign, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Forgotten Soldier
...
The train trundles on, leaving behind at each station a soldier with his own past
Heavyweight in its endeavours portraying its only passengers as its un-holy cast
Each face a palpable grey, the......
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Categories:
ensign, appreciation, remembrance day, world
Form:
Couplet
My Name Is Jacinda Ardern
...New Zealand all over Sea and land,NEWS
On blood bath of Kiwi ever since her birth,1856
On killing 50 lives settled to fight their bellies battle
“Land of long white cloud” mean New Zealand
......
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Categories:
ensign, blessing, character, creation, emotions,
Form:
Blank verse