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Best High Seas Poems

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Premium Member The Ballad of Daphne and Jack, a Romance of the High Seas
Listen, my dears, and I'll tell you a tale
Of a princess, a pirate, and glory.
There's a shipwreck, a rescue,
A romance, a ransom,
And a handicapped whale...

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Categories: high seas, adventure, humor, princess, romance,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Dreams On the High Seas
Dreams On The High Seas

I dare reach my dreams on the high seas
Calm sea sweet is the night air
High tide with the heightening of the...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high seas, boat, dream, sea, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Pirate
I dream of the past and days on the high seas
With no one to answer to and no one to please
Yearning for the freedom that...

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Categories: high seas, sea, travel, heart, old,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Uss Linda
The Seven Seas of  Rhye
A mythical destination for all those that do wrong.

This write sang to the tune of
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,...

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Categories: high seas, dedication, peace,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Overwhelming
death cannot endure eternity ~ if it could we’d never be born   
          ...

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Categories: high seas, allusion, depression, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Mystery of the Sea
Oh, the mystery of the Sea!
What treasures lie within your depths?
I stood upon the rocks looking out to sea,
And I heard the roaring waves
As they...

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Categories: high seas, childhood, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts of Two Dimensions
Thoughts of Two Dimensions

Yesterday, I loved your courtyards
bathed in moonlight's shadows and smiles,
smitten by wavering stars,
lanterns of my youth,
that are reflected as coins,
in the quiet...

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Categories: high seas, sea, seasonslove,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 2
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel  2

The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha


Cotton has always won the hearts 
Of every...

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Categories: high seas, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Boat
The Boat

In the harbor there is a galleon you can buy dinner on.
They sing shanty songs and talk to wild mermaids until sunset.
Then all, are...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high seas, adventure, america, freedom, good
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Air -
            ~ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ~
...

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Categories: high seas, change, death, nature, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 1
"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"


“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged 
on the...

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Categories: high seas, childhood, daughter, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Two Scavengers In a Truck and Two Beautiful People In a Mercedes
Two Scavengers in a Truck,
Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes

At the stoplight waiting for the light
nine a.m. downtown San Francisco
a bright yellow garbage truck
with two...

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Categories: high seas, adventure, suicide, red,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member The Pirate's Cove (Anaphora)
I like sailing on the high seas over crystal blue waters
I like seeing the waves rising and feeling the splash
I like sights of jolly pirates...

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Categories: high seas, adventure, history, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Very Punny, Very Punny
The little old woman who lived in a shoe
Wasn't the sole owner
Apparently there were strings attached
Wow that was a real groaner

I have never been a...

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Categories: high seas, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Final Home Coming
The Final Home Coming
 
From where the sky meets the high seas
Talking drums rolled out endless eulogies
As we waited, with the shore’s mud up to our...

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Categories: high seas, celebration, confusion, death, farewell,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs