Best Galleon Poems

Beneath the silent, cloudless skies
The Spanish Galleon swiftly glides,
For the Spanish Queen Isabella, in distant lands,
Its mighty mast’s unfurled by strong and sturdy hands.

She swiftly sails through  churning tides.
Crashing waves reveal its mighty rage as God decides.
Pay’s no heed to thoughts so grim; ...

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Grave galleon
Sullen seas
Spoiled rum

Skeleton crew
Scarecrow nest
Sails trimmed
Yankee Clipper
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7/5/2021...

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Into the void the galleon sails
With many sunken expressions
Never to appear again
Subject of cosmic questions

Her crew are met by one
Who will decide their future
From alien craft up in the sky
Death by misadventure

As up the rigging the creatures go
To reach the world above
Of solitude and many...

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Where the hail crests the sunlight by the hill on which we laid 
Though the bedding were not empty as the rocks did fight away
In the confounds of our memories too soon pass ways galore
Love then dines as faiths are born to the measure of...

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Full moon 
Glancing over
Blooming lateen sail

While galleon
Languishes
Drifting offshore
From port


Written July 5, 2021...

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A cool September day
We came to La Magdalena of Santander
Next to the Beach of Sardinero
To see the penguins and the seals
And the galleons "Ana de Ayala"
The "Cantabria" and the "Quitus Amazonas"
Stranded in the air
In the blue of the sky, in the sun
Waiting for the sailors...

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Lute

Curved, inviting, light,
it has the look of antique ships,
a galleon bulge of straight-grained woods.
Fretful cat-gut cords
coiled taut by silver screws
above the calibrated neck
conceal a thousand foot-pound pirouette.
Child of Sirocco and Spain,
veils, fans, brocade, and lace,
olive, vine, and orange surprise,
its plangent sound irrigates the moonlit air
peeks...

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