Best Harbour Poems

Do not harbour hatred

It slowly eats away at your soul

It closes the hearts door to love

Destruction it’s only role


Do not harbour hatred

It only brings pain

It serves no positive purpose

Destruction it’s only gain


Do not harbour hatred!
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steel beams
reach across space
poised
seas moving beneath sound
the salty breath-test of time...

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As the light starts to fade, at the end of the day,
And the last rays of sunset cascade on the bay.
The fishing boats set sail, their little lamps a glow,
Off to deeper waters and the school of fish below.
Along the granite, harbor wall, the lime...

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Dar harbour full of teeming life
A mass of colourful ships and boats
Radiant do your waters gleam

Each wave gently lapping the shore
Sails fluttering in the breeze

Slowly yet violently the yachts jib
As they sail and tack against the wind
Loud blast out the ships horns
As the tugs pilot...

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Grace Harbour
First into Grace Harbour
Me in classic sailboat
At anchor alone
In Desolation Sound
Where silence reveals the place
And the world is bigger
Because I can hear its’ vastness
It’s Bioacoustic diversity
Seals surface, gulls dive, water ripples.
A breeze in a cedar whispers
The buzz of a bumblebee.
The distant whistle of an...

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Take the rope, boy, pull the hawser hard,
The knot must sit firm and tight.

Remember, we sailed by starlit skies
as the sea took us far from cradling coasts,
far from the sheltering bays and beaches
To where no earth scent reaches
The salt-stained sea-spattered air;
And the gulls, oh, the...

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Like oil on troubled water, dawn pours upon the sea,
cajoling worried waters from their midnight reverie.
Her fresh North-West accomplice adds his whisper to the light
and shoo’s the fleeing night clouds to persuade them in their flight.
A raucous flock of seabirds add hello’s to break of...

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I sit upon the harbour wall
And feel the warm sun on my face.
I turn my gaze far out to sea
And watch the happy dolphins play.
Bright sunbeams slanting through the clouds
Are searchlights toying with the waves.

I lean against the cold hard lines
Of granite blocks quite roughly...

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'Pon Mt. Edgecumbe lies soft serve ice cream
Being surrounded by fuchsia lips
Wishfully gazed upon by a cobalt blue dream
Over the port full of harbor ships 

Colors of the sky predicting snow pretty ugly
The ice cream running down the mountain awfully good
Those waters in the harbor...

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A steam of sub-consciousness takes him to kissing a bouquet of rivers

Blessed by fortune and mindfulness Tim follows his passion for nature

Star struck the Horizon unfolds over a canopy of breathless adventure

Uncovers sunshine and rays as rain bows to shivering heaven below

As thunder and lightning...

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Love Harbour

The plug was pulled when you parted away
from what we intended. That hope of our day
As water ran out, and our love-boat assailed
by overreaction. Our hope was de-railed

I had to be vigilant as I made a way
to an alternate time-spent; A moment to pray
Well...

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This rusting chain is witness to an age
When slate was quarried from these ancient cliffs
And where one hundred quarrymen earned a wage.
This harbour, filled with steamboats, schooners, skiffs,
Became a hive of industry, back when
Demand for road-stone, roofing slates and bricks
Was at its peak, then never...

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A WINTER MORNING AT THE HARBOUR               
(For two Lovers)


Two People are making plans;
Their hours run by – spent,
moving behind their mirrors,
underneath plan “B” boils
unknown to both!
And! As promising as it seems,
building...

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Washed out to Sea
By Dilly Dally and Christopher Grieves
First line DD, second line CG and so on

Save my soul, I'm washed out to sea
I need the lights of a harbour to beckon me
Gasping for breath, in a bedraggled state
As the wild wind decides my ultimate...

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By coloured lights, the bay is lit, 
In evening breeze, they dance and flit, 
Arms linked we walk, enjoy the sights
The bay is lit by coloured lights. 

Young lads are diving from the pier, 
They somersault and have no fear, 
Grinning, laughing, youth is thriving
From...

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