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Best Sailors Poems

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Sailors Follow
Those stars that sailors follow
Guiding less the sea to swallow

And the night seas black as tar
Beyond the wave a land afar

Halyards taught, blocks in tallow
Breezes...

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Categories: sailors, seastars,
Form: Heroic Couplet



Premium Member It Was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)


There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...

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Categories: sailors, angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailors, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
She hung the lanterns every night
A softly pungent glowing light
In hopes amid the darkened cliffs
To warn the sailors of the gut
That churned amid the shifting...

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Categories: sailors, beauty, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Slave
Like a herd of cattle, placed on a ship.
Upon my back, I felt their whip!
Ripping into my flesh, excruciating pain.
Forced across the big water on...

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Categories: sailors, courage, death, slavery, perspective,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailors, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lighthouse Litany
Lighthouse Litany

Statuesque and stalwart in your seaward gaze 
There's such comfort in your beauty, you amaze!
Seafaring ships lost in wayward windswept seas
Conjures fears of drowning...

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Categories: sailors, light, sea,
Form: Couplet
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse

O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten...

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Categories: sailors, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Harmony of Dusk
The mellow western sky darkened, 
The sea was calm that night,
Yachts tacking across the bay
Towards their appointed piers.
Luminous moon rays shimmer 
Over wavelets that bathed
The...

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Categories: sailors, boat, kiss, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Alphabet
A a 	big A little a
                   What...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailors, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Warriors' Hymn
Lord, place Thy Hand on the yoke of those who fly,
And guide them through the vast reaches of the sky.
Bring them safely through their perilous...

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Categories: sailors, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Wind
Ascending towering mountains with the greatest of ease,
laughing as foliage tickles my tummy with soft, feathery leaves.

Endless melodies, I have played, breezing through dangling chimes,
luring...

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Categories: sailors, nature, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: sailors, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystical Mermaid
hidden below the echoing cold indigo sea
     a mermaid dwells . . . 
mystical as told in myths if you believe
...

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Categories: sailors, myth, sea,
Form: Free verse
If You Are the Ocean...
If you are the ocean, then I am the mist
which kisses the morning the way children kissed
their mother at breakfast to start a new day
If...

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Categories: sailors, happiness, life, love, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs