Best Maritime Poems

Thru maritime miles of minions in motion
We hedge our opinions while pledging devotion	
To serving the Captain and sharing our smiles
Through barrels of onions and flea-bearing trials

But even the pirates who pose in a rumble
Are learning the merits of those who are humble
The path of our...

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Dear Lori, my lady, my darling divine
My vision of beauty, my radiant shine
More precious to me than the tulips you bring
That opened for me in the sips of my Spring

Your lips are the dells of the wells that I drink
The pink in the blues of...

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In spite of the choice that I made to be wed
The call of the sea was the voice in my head
The wreck of a ship that I bought on a dare
Was ripe for a trip with a little repair

I gathered a crew from the worst...

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In only a moment of maritime mirth
My ship's maiden voyage was missing at birth
The King's Royal Navy reduced me in rank
By flushing my ship in the place where it sank

I fell in the sea with no source of a boat
The swell I could see was...

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In spite of the way I was doomed in the past
I might have resumed all my duties at last
The ship captain's daughter who killed for a lark
Was tossed overboard in the path of a shark 

The captain himself made a pitch in the punch
For helping...

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For merely a hunch or a hint of a kiss
I nearly was lunch for a hit on a miss
She shimmied for me in a short pirate skirt
No army of men was a match for this flirt

I started to flee in the face of a rout
She...

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Dear Davey, my darling, my bright pirate boy
Your lips are the prize in the night of my joy
Your eyes can erase me or teach me the cure
Of how you can face me by all you endure

Your sigh is the sign of a man who is...

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He, too, has risked his life at sea –
Climbing up the slippery steel grey sides
Of ships larger than village squares,
Angry white waves nipping at his heels
Chasing him up onto rain washed decks,
While strapping winds whip overhead.

Yet, unlike his African ancestors
Huddled helpless in dark holds,
He stands...

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Gray ships
Docks and ports

Palm trees 
And mangoes

Fresh breeze
Wide relief


A night on shore
Red lips, hot breath

Oh, no
Baby wails

Woman sits on golden land
Bundle in hand

Agony
The choice....

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Thru maritime miles of meals and mates
I posed as a pirate for polishing plates
For singing a song of the surf and the sea
I traded my turf for a tempest of tea

I had to be strong when I woke up at four
To prove my own worth...

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Now Davey was glad that Miss Lori was cool
To not be so mad with a man like a fool
The money she spent for the rent that was not
Was no longer sent for the tent that he got

The fact of the matter that made her get...

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May's maritime plants

making way for those of June;

       the sea not watching





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              4/10/2015


  Contest - Get your Senryu on

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My mind was relieved when my treasure was found
A matey retrieved it by scouting around
The pirate ship captain made sure that I knew
That me and my booty could stay with the crew

To all the dear pirates who thought I was bait
I gave them a hug...

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in stagnant water
  aesthetic ecstasy sinks~    
 engulphed by a lake   

planks in protrusion 
brooding clouds enshroud a pier~ 
silver lining plush...

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Walking along the seashore
Sand sifting through my toes,
Pondering ancient mariner lore
Walking along the seashore,
Scenes my mind can scarce restore
Of sailors and their pirate foes,
Walking along the seashore
Sand sifting through my toes.

Written March 10, 2022...

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