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Best Helmsman Poems

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The Helmsman
“Over there,” yelled the Helmsman
“On the Starboard side.”
Though when I looked from left to right
Nothing caught my eye

“Over there,” he yelled again
“On the starboard side.”
And...

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Categories: helmsman, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: helmsman, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto I
When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be...

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Categories: helmsman, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Pirate's Life For Me
I starts me life as pirate, 
A grommet before age twelve,
Not an ordinary bandit,
High sea adventures me delve.

With a Letter of Marque in me han’
And...

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Categories: helmsman, adventure, fantasy, on work
Form: Quatrain
Home Harbor
Beyond this space called here and now where hopes are often lost;
across the seething sea of time where dreams are tempest tossed,
there lies a haven...

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Categories: helmsman, christian, faith, heaven, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Captain of the Ship
I am the captain of my ship
Sailing uncharted oceans
I am the captain of my mates
To whom I owe devotion

Sailing we on mounting waves
Awash, unconscious, unafraid
Sail...

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Categories: helmsman, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
From the National Poet of Slovenia In a Language People Understand - the Ruins of the Ancien Regime
Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.

He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss...

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Categories: helmsman, absence, allegory, analogy, animal,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the  back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core

For two...

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Categories: helmsman, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Summer Fun
I remember back when times were simple. You could have your milk
delivered to your door. One of my favorite memories was waiting for the
Helm’s bakery...

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Categories: helmsman, childhood, family, food, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Depths
Braving stormy seas
Lone helmsman-up to the task 
Old Leviathan...

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Categories: helmsman, allegory, allusion, religious, tribute,
Form: Haiku
On Turning Forty____
Someone said, “Now you’ve turned forty-,
What have you learned?
Your experience must be varied,
Your fingers quite burned.

You must’ve gone through troubled times,
Of disappointments you’d’ve quite a...

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Categories: helmsman, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Sea Shanty
As they were sailing ‘cross the ocean deep
They watched the sunrise and the diving grebe.

When up in the top, the lookout did spy
A storm advancing,...

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© Al Parry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helmsman, death,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Passions
PASSIONS 


On the deck of his life’s boat 
In a state of confusion
Was he sitting
Gazing at the horizon of
The unknown 

Dark clouds of doubt were...

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Categories: helmsman, boat, confusion, introspection, lost,
Form: Epic
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 07
Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07
Brutus called his captains into conference
we are done with creeping along the shorelines 
prepare now to sail out across the Aegean
the...

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Categories: helmsman, history,
Form: Epic
Postulate
Some time
before the biped thought
of history, he carved out image
of himself, and in the murky dawn
of consciousness, began to look around
to see just how he...

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Categories: helmsman, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs