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Best Sailboat Poems

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


Premium Member Ecstasy
Exquisitely frail, a lone flute exhales, leaving this heart in a flutter 

Cascading aloft, soft violins rise, from the flow of smooth silver rivers

Swelling the...

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Categories: sailboat, beautiful, music,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member I Am But a Dreamer
I am but a dreamer
and in my dreams I play
where I live so happily
writing them my way
inside my illusions
where I know I belong
whistling a joyful...

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Categories: sailboat, introspection, on writing and
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sailing Life's Seas
My life is like a sailboat,
                   ...

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Categories: sailboat, faith, jesus, life,
Form: Quatrain
The Beauty In These Words
The beauty in these words


Rainbows o’er the valley, vibrant colors on the hill
Coconut and apple pies now cooling on the sill
A warm day in November...

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Categories: sailboat, beauty, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: sailboat, life, loss,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Call
The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...

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Categories: sailboat, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member See Sea Rider
I had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming...

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Categories: sailboat, adventure, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Seashells Echo
Over the ocean
          Pages of the story fly
     Like birds above the...

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Categories: sailboat, ocean, wind, words,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Shell Phone
Strolling the beach one day, a magnificent shell I happened to see.
I picked it up and held it to my ear - just out of...

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Categories: sailboat, imagination, sea, old, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Kneaded Life
I’ve watched him whither. He came to me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine-boned features of his face and the clarity of his...

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Categories: sailboat, age, dream, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Harbor Spring
A light wind gently rocks our sailboat as
breezes begin to pick up on the sun drenched dock. 
Cable wires rap and tap upon the mast...

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Categories: sailboat, beauty, nature, ocean, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Once More
Once more I dream of the islands
Once more I yearn for the sea
To see a sailboat out on the horizon
As you walk the shore hand...

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Categories: sailboat, fantasy
Form: Ballad
Premium Member No Winter This Year!.... No! None At All!
NO WINTER THIS YEAR! NO NONE AT ALL!

no winter this year, no! none at all!
the ducks dilly dally, honeybees in the fall!

my dry cleaners said...

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Categories: sailboat, funnywinter, winter,
Form: Limerick
Fisherman We Were
I can remember,
Those warm sunny days,
As we sat on the beach,
Watching wave after wave.
Seeing the sea grass wave,
In the warm summer breeze,
Droplets of water land...

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Categories: sailboat, dedication, family, father, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sailing Adrift
As I sailed in a small ivory sailboat
on crystal blue waters. 

The wind gently blew through my 
mahogany hair.

Next, I saw dolphins doing backflips 
out...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailboat, blue, ocean,
Form: Imagism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things