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Best Pirate Poems

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Premium Member My Pirate Women
Pirate women permeate my spaces.
They are fierce and fabulous.
You dare not lie to them.
They will cut you to shreds, with their swords.

Cut  you to...

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Categories: pirate, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pirate Bay
```Pirate Bay the Haiku``` 

pirates fierce and mean 
drowning fish, sea to sea 
parrots on their butt 


```Polly Wants A Cracker``` 

bloodthirst & brutal 
Quartermaster...

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Categories: pirate, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Old Pirate
I dream of the past and days on the high seas
With no one to answer to and no one to please
Yearning for the freedom that...

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Categories: pirate, sea, travel, heart, old,
Form: Couplet
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: pirate, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: pirate, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Cloud Castles
As a girl, I imagined a place to be
Sprinkled in stardust, where grassy skies rotate
A pirate nymph, commanding the purple sea
Leaping unicorns across a rainbow...

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Categories: pirate, childhood, fantasy, happy, imagination,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: pirate, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shamrock Reflections
Roads rising up from Irish mists in merry jigs
To the flowing tenor song
Sung by the River Boyne born from Tara's Keep
As Patrick's paschal fire
Weaves truth...

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Categories: pirate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The man upstairs

Keys rattle,
door slowly closes ...
An echo of footsteps walk upstairs..

You can hear his bedroom door close,
a little bump as he sits on his bed,
then there...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pirate, emotions, loneliness, missing,
Form: Free verse
The Pirates Life
He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a...

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Categories: pirate, adventure, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
Alchemy
How do you change a lie into the truth?
Alchemy, dear children ...
this is how it's done, using unverifiable proof

First, you take a sick, dirty lie,
and...

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Categories: pirate, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 1
The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...

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Categories: pirate, allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween Memories
      I was dressed as a witch for Halloween that year long ago,
And with my friends we were going from...

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Categories: pirate, childhood, halloween, happy, memory,
Form: Narrative
Some Dreams
Some dreams are made of stardust
glitter floating in the sky
The rhythm of a gentle stream
that's slowly passing by

A garden filled with roses
in a pink and...

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Categories: pirate, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: pirate, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs