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Best Jolly Roger Poems

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Premium Member Pirate of My Heart
It was the 17th century, and I was travelling with my family,
            We were...

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Categories: jolly roger, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



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: jolly roger, adventure, humor, princess, romance,
Form: Light Verse
A Pirates Prayer of Thanks
I come to you with humble thanks for all that you’ve delivered,
For Englishmen to walk the planks and for timbers left unshivered.

I thank you for...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolly roger, funny, sea, me, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Cruisin' Pirate Style
Arggh me hearties! We're takin' a long-awaited vacation!
Th' enchantin' isles uv th' Caribbean is ar final destination!
Hoist th' Jolly Roger an' them billowin' sails an'...

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Categories: jolly roger, funnyme, me,
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: jolly roger, adventure, fantasy, on work
Form: Quatrain



Shiver Me Timbers
SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And...

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Categories: jolly roger, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Skelton Bones
Down in the crypt where the caskets lie
And dust stirs up when trucks go by
Giggling sounds, not moans and groans
From the tomb of Skelton Bones

When...

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Categories: jolly roger, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Once..... Our Sweet Dream (Part 2)
Welcome to my Kingdom,Handsome Pirate Of the Seas!
I'm just a little Mermaid,have no feet, nor even knees..

Yet i have a Heartbeat,Waitin for a Human's Love,
a...

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Categories: jolly roger, loveme, love, me, ,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Captains Log Book - July 16, 1798
Twere a   blisterin day, on da Fundy Bay, aboard da ‘ Black Angel of da Blue”, 
with a crew of 32, whilst resting...

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Categories: jolly roger, me,
Form: Narrative
The Sea Rover
14 July 2010

The Sea Rover


Moving sideways or careening
All hands hoay and avast ye
Sea dogs and landlubbers go on pillaging
Jolly Roger is flapping guarded by cannon...

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Categories: jolly roger, adventure, history, sea, time,
Form: Rhyme
Born To the Sea
Born to the sea


Mind of water, flowing thoughts;
The currents beneath your words could change us all.
River heart, born to the sea;
The solace we seek waves...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolly roger, adventure, devotion, drink, people,
Form: I do not know?
The Pirates
The Pirates
 
Pirates were around in the 16th century, they flew the 
Jolly Roger/Scull & Crossbones and would loot and pillage
Ships at sea, for their...

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Categories: jolly roger, social,
Form: Narrative
Shiver Me Timbers
I'll tell ye of me life as a pirate
I knows ye sees me as some old codger
But when I was a young'n matey
I sailed 'neath...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolly roger, adventure, humor, journey, violence,
Form: Rhyme
The Captain and the Codfish
Peter Pan? He is nothing but a tale drawn out,
a hero of half-truths, drowned in fairy dust,
the dullest side of a double-edged sword.
 
Before my...

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Categories: jolly roger, body, fairy, children, truth,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Eye For An Eye For An Eye
there are some parts of your personality
you must never look at
or Aristotle's logic will pay you a visit
for a 15th century anatomy lesson
an eye for...

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Categories: jolly roger, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things