Best Faring Poems
Boxes and Crates...I have felt the rain
I have bared witness to such horrendous pain
I have died a few times over
I have hidden inside a smile
The fresh scent of morning dew
A sea faring fog, coming for a landin......
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Categories:
faring, heart, introspection, romantic,
Form:
Light Verse
Smooth Sailing...To fill each tethered sail, the winds must blow
in harmony, while gentle currents flow,
and if good fortune wishes to prevail,
the winds must blow to fill each tethered sail.
To still the roari......
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Categories:
faring, moon, sea, storm,
Form:
Quatrain
Go For It...Life is a dangerous struggle
Full of inconsistencies, challenges and pains
Life is not fair even to the fair skinned
The dark skinned are not faring better either
In everyone's backyard a litt......
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Categories:
faring, confidence, courage, dream, encouraging,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Glory To Thermodynamics In General...Glory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficie......
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Categories:
faring, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form:
Rhyme
After the Funeral...After The Funeral
Tim had found his place after the party. Faring well in his urn he waited to be scattered. Compartmentalised, fragmented and united into two batches of memories.
Indian Ocean
......
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Categories:
faring, death,
Form:
Haibun
The Lighthouse...For nigh on a hundred-fifty years it has graced the rugged shore of Maine!
Its welcoming beacon guiding sea-faring souls who sail the mighty main!
It has weathered untold fearsome storms of gal......
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Categories:
faring, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
REMEMBER IT ALL...REMEMBER IT ALL
So many memories that leave few traces
All the friends I knew and their faces
And when the time is nigh, at least I’ll try
To remember it all
It’s been so long, a danger of f......
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Categories:
faring, age, memory,
Form:
Lyric
Betty the Cook...What a spectacle Betty was making
of herself in the kitchen while baking.
She kept tripping and falling.
Other cooks found it galling
all the dishes each day she kept breaking.
Today it’s much bette......
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Categories:
faring, funny,
Form:
Limerick
The Captain...He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke
Looking out as the waves crashed ashore
He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke
As the storm winds would batter the door
He'd only come......
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Categories:
faring, america, bereavement, child, dad,
Form:
Epic
The Sirens...It is said that there is an island in the midst of a fog-shrouded sea
Where there are mystical creatures, which no mortal man has seen;
Creatures that sing so enchantingly that they entrance all th......
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Categories:
faring, myth, mythology,
Form:
Epic
Pure Filth...When the woollen industry died,
the reservoir that fed the old mill,
became disused.
The water meadow at its head
became a swamp.
Developers,
who want to build houses everywhere,
take one look......
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Categories:
faring, environment, nature, pollution, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Dark Eyed Traveller...Standing at the tavern door,eyes dark and brooding
Neath his floppy hat, stared into the crowded room,
A Raven flew from his shoulder settling in rafters high,
He smiled a sardonic smile and order......
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Categories:
faring, adventure, analogy, beach, drink,
Form:
Ballad
Cook Betty...The cooks in the restaurant found it appalling
how Betty messed up every pie she was baking
and how- from her tripping and falling -
dish after dish Cook Betty kept breaking.
What a spectacle of hers......
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Categories:
faring, funny,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Descry a Skill, Decry It Not...I spied a ship and descried the flag it flew.
It was nothing like the flags I had seen before.
It was red and blue, with white circles and yellow stars
The highlights of white and yellow stood out......
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Categories:
faring, ocean, sea, stars, travel,
Form:
Epic
Oars Before Shores...I spent a year or two aboard
A sea faring vessel
Through the gale and through the rain
With Lord Neptune I did wrestle
Me Capitan was a wise old man
With experience beyond my years
And wh......
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Categories:
faring, adventure, boat, humorous, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme