Best Trawler Poems
The Loss of the Andrea Gail
...They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.
From the 107th psalm
It......
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Categories:
trawler, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Leaving Wales
...Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,
the soil I tread, the salt that leaves my pores.
We drove an ......
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Categories:
trawler, leaving, longing, love,
Form:
Lyric
Instruction
...Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing ......
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Categories:
trawler, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness,
Form:
Pastoral
The Skeleton Coast
...Morning fog was parting for the day's performance,
and an audience of just me sat cross legged,
waiting for ghosts.
They appeared slowly, one by one.
Old whalers, freighters and, fifty yards out......
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Categories:
trawler, sea,
Form:
Free verse
3 Haiku
...In January 2007 the fishing trawler, 'Pere Charles'was lost off Dunmore East. Co Waterford,
Ireland, with the loss of five fishermen. I knew four of them, two very well.
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Categories:
trawler, naturewater, water,
Form:
Haiku
A Letter To Santa Part One Please Read First
...As I lie near the covers all cosy and tight
I smile when I think Santa’s coming tonight
Most of the Prezzies are under the tree
But Mum say’s Santa’s coming especially for me
I wrote him a letter......
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Categories:
trawler, hope, boat, me, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Widows' Walk
...She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and......
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Categories:
trawler, natural disasters,
Form:
Verse
The Trawlerman
...As you sit down for your tea, take a moment to think of me
I am the one who leaves the quay, to bring home harvest from the sea
Lobster pot and fishing creel, Dover sole and jellied eel
Biting wind a......
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Categories:
trawler, food, on work and
Form:
Rhyme
In the Sea of Tears
...In the sea of tears
A trawler full of fishes –
The pirates attack!......
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Categories:
trawler, life, loss,
Form:
Haiku
Monsters Are Real
...
In hushed whispers, Mariners told stories,
Of a octopus like cephalopod creature;
With a tentacled beak and jet thrust power,
A creature as long as a school bus......
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Categories:
trawler, animal, ocean, science,
Form:
Verse
The Moon and I
...The moon and I
are alone on this night
in the dim yellow light
the mist mixes
strudels like
dead insects
bits of rotting bait
ciggy butts
fish guts
Bottle tops swim
glisten as they swirl
......
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Categories:
trawler, adventure, angst, imagination, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Woman, Whenever, Wherever, Whoever You Are
...well, woman has been around for a while
hypno-teasing men with her wicked smile
been known by many names starting with Eve
Boadicea, Cleopatra and Genevieve
she can fly-by-night, be out......
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Categories:
trawler, allegory, woman,
Form:
Verse
The Splendour of Sylt By Satis Shroff
...The SPLENDOR OF SYLT (Satis Shroff)
SYLT AT DAWN (Satis Shroff)
You hear the waves
As they splash onto the shore.
You haven't opened your eyes,
But you discern the cries of sea gulls......
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Categories:
trawler, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Seagull
...The seagull
In the winter light she limps through
Frozen snow on the frozen ground
In the deepest night the starlight
Guides her back to the colder town
Baby, baby bunting
Mummy’s gone a ****ing
G......
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Categories:
trawler, allegory, angst, death, life,
Form:
Ballad
Wave Upon Wave
...I love to walk barefoot
along the shore
the imprint of my footprints
follows me like a shadow
I know they’ll vanish
as each wave breaks
rushing over the shingle
tickling my toes
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Categories:
trawler, beach, ocean,
Form:
Free verse