Best Freighter Poems
Below are the all-time best Freighter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of freighter poems written by PoetrySoup members
Alligator TaleAn alligator on a floating freighter
Ate the Captain and the navigator,
He also ate the crew
In a meaty stew,
In a feast which included the waiter....
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Categories:
freighter, children, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Mindless ThinkingTook a cruise down a river of booze.
Pissed my pants and filled my shoes.
Now it's time to clean it up.
Take a shower and drink a...
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Categories:
freighter, sometimes,
Form:
Rhyme
Part I-The Escape of a Rooster Named HarborA handsome rooster with red-breasted feathers, soft and lustrous,
and a head covered with golden plumage,
was too unhappy to sing about his age,
so he embarked on...
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Categories:
freighter, adventure, depression, hope, nostalgia,
Form:
ABC
Freighter's Foghorn On Mackinac IslandAwoken at 3:30 a.m.
On Mackinac Island at the Grand Hotel
By a freighter blowing its foghorn
Like a calf half separated
From its mother
Bellowing out there somewhere
Lost and...
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Categories:
freighter, boat, children, life, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Blockage of the Suez Canal
More than fifty ships go through the Suez Canal on any day.
However, a very large freighter has blocked the passageway.
The ship called the "Ever Given"...
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Categories:
freighter, business, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Part Ii-The Escape of a Rooster Named HarborWhen the well-rested rooster woke up at noon, he found himself in the lap
of a gorgeous boy and he was telling his mom with urgency,
"I...
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Categories:
freighter, family, children, friendship, funny,
Form:
Quatrain
The History of Scituate LightBelow this dome
The earthy place
Lies a stone lighthouse
Sturdy standing in place
Across the waters it does face
Brought to birth at 1810
She’s been...
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Categories:
freighter, history, nature, places, war,
Form:
Ballade
The LetterThe Letter
A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man,...
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Categories:
freighter, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
SecretHe walks around with a secret untold
Its taken his peace, and life begins to unfold.
No one understands the pain he has to bare.
Now everything tastes...
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Categories:
freighter, hope, life, loss, life,
Form:
Rhyme
InwardsInwards
Admiral Nukhimov lies in the usual position, on her side, on the seabed with sixty four bodies still aboard. Hit by a freighter Pyotr Vasev...
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Categories:
freighter, conflict, death, history, war,
Form:
Verse
The Ship WreckThe ship Wreck
A sparkle, the freighter exploded and up in the air I flew. Looking down the ship
had vanished in the glitter of...
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Categories:
freighter, adventureme, women, sea, me,
Form:
I do not know?
The Mystery of the Ss Ourang MedanIn 1947 in the Straits of Malacca near Indonesia
An old Dutch freighter the SS Ourang Medan
Sent a message out that the whole crew...
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Categories:
freighter, mystery, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Writin' Vern'N Jonji HomeWatching little crabs scuttle out of holes building fences of round wet sand bricks.
A long necked long legged white crested round eyed sentinel watches a...
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Categories:
freighter, places,
Form:
Blank verse
Watercolour PictureWATERCOLOUR PICTURE
Strolling slowly in tree pergolas
Golden roofs and sunlit cupolas
Caress of evening breeze warm
Fountains with their...
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Categories:
freighter, city,
Form:
Couplet
PorscheSon Scottie drives a Porsche, had a broken antennae
Took it to the shop, must wait for a part from Germany
Six weels later
Arrived by freighter
Wrong part......
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Categories:
freighter, horror,
Form:
Limerick