Best Offshore Poems

So far offshore, but nothing was biting

Six-pack behind me looked so inviting

     New rod I placed on the deck

     Though it was just for a sec

‘Twas then an amberjack hit like lightning


The buoyant rod bounded over each...

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Hello?....
Yes...... you  can call me Thomas.....
......I tried that 
Yes, yes.... you  can call me Thomas
Ok, one more time
And again?.... 
Call me doubting Thomas
Yes, I appreciate my call is important to you
Ok... off and on again... 
No? still the same.... can you call me...

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Sailor I can't claim to be,
yet I heard the siren's call,
when I first beheld the tower of steel
rising o'er blue waves so tall.

Miles beyond where man can walk,
and miles deeper still,
the hand of our collective race
can still exert its will.

Past azure depths,
past murky gloom,
past miles...

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Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. 
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You have to plough through pages of the health and safety book.

The pointed...

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