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Best Mariners Poems

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Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: mariners, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Lonely Lighthouse
The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantly
Or swarthy seafarers incessantly
On oceans perilous, tempestuous
A sailor’s salvation...

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Categories: mariners, light, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Spirits In the Wood
Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mariners, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Secrets of the Sea
When moonbeams dance upon the placid sea;
When billowing waves seethe endlessly;
I ponder what secrets the sea might yield,
Should its ageless mysteries be revealed!

Are there unknown...

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Categories: mariners, sea,
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: mariners, childhood, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Yellow Shine
What golden fevers disease drives the madman’s insanity,
A toxic yellow shines metal, that glitter beneath the polar Aurora,
Of greed’s horded treasure of the Klondike’s curse!
By...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mariners, adventure, boat, death, history,
Form: Free verse
Cygnus Olor
Chaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti 
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds...

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Categories: mariners, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Algol
When gazing Beta Persei,
a star with many ghoulish names, 
be wary of a winking eye,
for fluctuating flames
belie its evil aims. 

Ancient mariners would watch with...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mariners, myth, mythology, star,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Guiding Light
As I sit there looking out to sea,
Reflects a picture of a different time.
Its white washed walls set against the granite rock,
As the sea pounds...

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Categories: mariners, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lighthouse
Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.

The wrath of...

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Categories: mariners, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fata Morgana
"Fata Morgana" 

feet hardly touch the ocean
when silent stars of no voice
transmit words to pay the ferryman
on the water no reflection 

gently the sun waves...

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Categories: mariners, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Stoic Sentinel
A stoic sentinal midst waves,
you staunchly stand erect and tall.
Emerged in frothy, churning white,
you hold your own in nature’s squall.

Atop, your beacon light shines bright
to...

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Categories: mariners, light, metaphor, storm, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
On the Other Side
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From a weary weathered beach
I watch the sunset fade
beneath angry wintered seas
drowning possibilities
of another moonlit night
washing up on shore
and still I go on,
for what calls...

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Categories: mariners, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Acciaccatura
Acciaccatura

And filled with stars and the land
A pale gentle hand turned the hourglass 
Of my soul

Stalking the alabaster moon 
I rejoined once more
Those who follow...

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Categories: mariners, love, mystery, naturemoon, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Beacon of Hope
Like a shaft I fly,
a beam of glorious luminance,
I travel right into your bedroom
at the break of dawn.
"Wake up my friend,
my brothers are coming
to illuminate...

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Categories: mariners, hope,
Form: Free verse

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