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Premium Member Stunning Revelations From Ancient Maps
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...

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Categories: seafarers, history, science, urbanlost, lost,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Lonely Lighthouse
The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantly
Or swarthy seafarers incessantly
On oceans perilous, tempestuous
A sailor’s salvation...

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Categories: seafarers, light, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Bewitching Call of the Siren
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...

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Categories: seafarers, dark, death, evil, god,
Form: Canzone
Ever After
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...

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Categories: seafarers, introspection
Form: Verse
Premium Member Waterfall Chandeliers
 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...

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Categories: seafarers, imagery,
Form: Imagism



Legend of the Sand Dune Princess
Legends of the seas,
    Washed up on the white, crystalline shores,
Countless untold stories,
    Unlocking new doors.

If each shell was...

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Categories: seafarers, deep, emotions, fantasy, sad
Form: Rhyme
Winds Return
A fog bank on the Horizon, 
        As a barrier to our way. 
    ...

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Categories: seafarers, change,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ever After
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...

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Categories: seafarers, inspirational
Form: Verse
Premium Member Poseidon
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

Feb. 24,2022  ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seafarers, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Hope my final sigh is Relief
Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seafarers, analogy, body, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Erik the Red: Anacreontic Verse
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...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seafarers, analogy, appreciation, courage, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member - Odin Also Called Allfader -
The Vikings were fearless seafarers
  ~ Their aim was, assaults and battle
 ... steal, rap and kill

On the mighty castle of Åsgard
~ It was Odin...

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Categories: seafarers, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am the Ocean
I am the ocean, also known as the sea.
I am unpredictable, my nature wild and free.
My color varies, shades of blue and green.
Shadows and light...

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Categories: seafarers, appreciation, god, ocean, sea,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Storm Is Brewing
Night Sky Shivers In the Distance

A storm is brewing, excitement coursing through
Who would think calm blue water storm would brew

Calm silence lull before the storm...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seafarers, ocean, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Voyage To Remember
The day that we left port, to new horizons we would sail
Knowing the dangers ahead, seafarers in the end we would prevail

Our journey from the...

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Categories: seafarers, fantasyday, life,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things