Best Seafaring Poems

Sunrise at Sea

past salt sight sun rises
rubs the whitecaps from her eyes
stretches forever

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air heavy with spice 
salt crisp on my  lips and mind
eyes blinded by stars

Exile

callous bejeweled 
I’m keeping secrets hidden 
salt upon my skin

Gulf of Mexico

watching the moon set
sinking into the Black...

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Seafaring Foreigner 

In steerage on a steamer with
Figs conceiving in Vesuvian soil 
Hidden in a pot of a sturdy trunk
Made of hope and adventure. Fear of
Sights unseen and joys unbeknownst
Of sons and daughters yet.

Hazy canyons of skyscraping giants 
Overshadow brick row houses
Hard at work, ethnic...

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a page of my diary
penned in blues

crimped fold over fold
crafted into an origami boat
set afloat to drift free

dreams and aspirations
captured in yearning
poured out and launched

seafaring under a starry vault
desperate plea to the winds of fate



AP: 1st place 2020, Honorable Mention 2025

Submitted on May 13, 2020...

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My seafaring days 
Have come to an end 
All that brash exuberance 
Of youth, 
Now wasted on younger men. 


                W.A CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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Its course is set by tended wheel
A man of salt stands at the helm
Not led by maps, but stars reveal
The far off island, called King’s Realm

The spray of mist falls fast upon
The rough exterior of this man
With squinted eyes, to see the dawn
The island shows...

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'O,my love
how my vessel creaks,this lifelong quest
...........passion inflamed on torrid sea's
searching shore to shore,with no harbor to rest

The standard I bear,proclaiming intention
banner's flutter the wind,as my heart
pounds a quickened pace, for oar's duration

Distant,far reached continent's,many
empty tropical island's are plenty
but....there is only one,still bay
that I wish...

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Seafaring cats on the deep blue sea
They float away relaxed, happy and carefree
I wish I was along, oh my, oh sigh, oh sorry me.
I could use some of that joy, fiddle oh, fiddle dee....

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Louhi Louhi, me gotta go
Louhi Louhi, me gotta go.
Fine little demoness waits for me
Me sail across Pohjola Sea
Me sail dat ship all alone
I never think I go back home.

Oh Louhi Louhi, oh behbee now, me gotta go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Louhi Louhi, me gotta...

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