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Best Nautical Poems

Below are the all-time best Nautical poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nautical poems written by PoetrySoup members


Nautical Grace
Through waters you move.
All else is dull when compared.
What beauty you hold....

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Categories: nautical, animals, life, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member I Embarked Upon a Great Escape
I've deleted this acrostic from the competition for personal reasons. 
        SORRY, J. D.


G lorious was the morning...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nautical, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Ahoy There - Out of My Way
'Twas a dark and stormy night on that dark and stormy night!
HMS Blunderbuss plied the billowing seas just off the Isle of Wight!
Able Seaman Steer...

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Categories: nautical, dark, funny, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Day At the Beach
From the tips, of her white foam caps
To the bottom of her swells
The depth of our Love for her
Only the Ocean can retell 
As we...

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Categories: nautical, appreciation, beach, beauty, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Island Blues
Island Blues

My teal eyes rise to southern skies
     in soft shades of azure,
A reflection of our aqua serene seas
  ...

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Categories: nautical, blue, color, sea, summer,
Form: Free verse



A Traveler's Story - Part 2
I came late one season in the eve
and I noticed those emerald eyes
waiting for me, I did not see.

Waited to late to return from the...

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Categories: nautical, dedication, forgiveness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.

Once...

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Categories: nautical, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member From Sunset To Sunrise
FROM SUNSET TO SUNRISE

Her clinging mermaid-figure, auburn hair - french braid-chaste.
Pearl’s arms circumnavigate his nautical-neck. Strong arms gird her waist.
His hands, like the current, draw...

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Categories: nautical, love,
Form: Rhyme
On the Other Side

Beyond the blue ... 
sailing past the farthest tearful kiss blown
Hoping for clear skies ahead,
as my Aussie eyes see wallaby clouds
joyfully jumping by

From Perth to...

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Categories: nautical, happiness, joy, perspective, places,
Form: Romanticism
Numbers
Nineteen nosey newts nudged nasty nautical nannies
Eighteen eager ermines excitedly edged everyone’s ego 
Seventeen sacred slugs sat sideways searching seagulls
Sixteen slippery snails slid southwards sipping...

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Categories: nautical, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Rolling Rocker Ball
Watch out and wait. In fact stop listen and wait. Is that the wailing of a sail sailing by? Of course it is. The fact...

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Categories: nautical, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
When We Were Young
When we were young
We didn’t know what we could become
What we could have been
When  we were just sixteen.

The road ran  on forever
Summer lasted...

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Categories: nautical, art, best friend, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charleston Merman
We were vacationing in the state of
palm trees and seashore in September's
mild loveliness.
Me, a sexagenarian widow,
hobbled by arthritis in my knees.
As my family enjoyed the...

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Categories: nautical, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ocean Symphony
Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                   ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nautical, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member African Skies
I hark to freer days of childhood
Life simplicity in itself
days of laughter, of playing in the sand
so so soft and fine
golden white sands from the...

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Categories: nautical, africa, beauty, nature, travel,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things