Best Seafarers Poems

...Professor Hapgood’s studies on ancient maps were fixed
Einstein said his theories should be added to history’s mix
Perhaps it proved too big a leap for other minds to take
But his ancient culture ......

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...The Bewitching Call of the Siren

She ululates a forlorn desire for a human love;
She’s pure evil, not from God’s Heaven above.
This siren’s seductive melody is heard on all seas,
And even on th......

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...The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantl......

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...Seafarers shall be saved, though waves may
deem them dead, lost in the ocean's fray
they shall not perish, nor shall they be afraid
nor falter, though their earthly woes be done.
They shall tame ......

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... Listen to the 
ticking hands of twilight,
close your eyes,
while I take your thoughts
   to an ivory reverie of 
flickering fantasies… 
there I’m cruising 
above an 
 island of mystery
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...Legends of the seas,
    Washed up on the white, crystalline shores,
Countless untold stories,
    Unlocking new doors.

If each shell was able to tell its own tale
    In the wash of the tides......

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...A fog bank on the Horizon, 
        As a barrier to our way. 
       And oh the sea, so tranquil, 
          No breeze to ruffle it's face. 
        Our ship drifting aimlessly, 
           Her ......

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...Seafarers shall be saved, though waves may
deem them dead, lost in the ocean's fray
they shall not perish, nor shall they be afraid
nor falter, though their earthly woes be done.
They shall tame ......

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...Powerful water-god 
Paradigm of Neptune
Pride of seas and oceans
Protects all seafarers
Placed as lord of horses
Paired to Amphitrite 
Put as god of earthquakes

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 On bowride below gentle titans peep
   ghost ships of the Pacific hunt and chase -
 great barnacled seafarers of the deep
   beneath the waves its clear blue waters grace.
 Where yon an ol......

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...
Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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Finally, my blood began to coagulate;
I am initially concerned over p......

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...HEED, my words
for at its end
his name will be
future seafarers
guide like that
of a star
HAIL, the winds
they come from the north
and just yon, a star
that none need attend
and in ......

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                                              In Stars Abo......

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The Timeball
sits atop of a tower
at Point Gellibrand -  a quaint
relic of the past when,
well over a century ago,
ships at anchor in the Bay
would set their chronometers 
as the ball desc......

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...The Vikings were fearless seafarers
  ~ Their aim was, assaults and battle
 ... steal, rap and kill

On the mighty castle of Åsgard
~ It was Odin who is ruled
         ... and everyone knew it
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