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Best Sail Poems

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


Love Passing By
When the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...

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Categories: sail, love, love, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree
The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...

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Categories: sail, adventure, old,
Form: Rhyme
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: sail, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: sail, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: sail, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: sail, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sail, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member When We Were Young
When we were young we loved our fairy tales
A frog could  be a prince with just one kiss
Each cloud, a boat where dreamers could...

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Categories: sail, analogy, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: sail, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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Categories: sail, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Navigating vast oceans of life, negotiating its lows and highs,
Some blissful of pure joy, some burdened in griefs and sighs,
Riding aspirations eternal, rowing vigor of...

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Categories: sail, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: sail, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Indian Girl
--Virginia Slim--

Different eyes, the same world 
Ancient skin, dirty Indian Girl 
Smokey, eyes, exotic raven hair 
---Now listen to  the colors, of transformation, 
On...

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Categories: sail, adventure, girl, life, native
Form: Ballad
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: sail, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - a One Way Ticket -
Hills come alive with sweet sounds of birds whistling tunes
Filled with harmonious peace, you sail within time
Gentle whispering winds through branches of trees call

When you...

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Categories: sail, beauty, deep, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

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