Write Boat Poems

Bowing to the mighty ocean 
Relentless is her pull,
Into the blue depths
'Til she's good and full

Ice took it's first shot
As steady we ran right in,
Sailing...

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Ideas are green kites that lift me high
birth most beautiful blue dreams
To my dandelion delight I fulfill in teal time
For I can do amber anything

Oh!...

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Flow away,flow away
Flow away my river flow

I dream of a river,my river,flow
I dream of a boat,I built,flow
Man the station, man the station don't get lost,flow

A...

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I set off in a big blue boat

I wanted to see the world afloat

today I talked to a whale

I drank some cold ale

I tried but...

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These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my...

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A boat crafted of rickety wood dragging a clumsy bottom
A briny sea inhales the morning sun
Hemingway is in my boat

Rubbing my weary eyes,
Is that you,...

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MV WILHELM GUSTLOFF

This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea
A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10.600, war...

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SS SULTANA

Boiler, or bomb, the Sultana sank on April 27, eighteen sixty five 
Taking down with her, a good rounded off number of 1,800 lives

Carrying...

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SS CITY OF BENARES

Prior knowledge this ship will carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey
Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt, should have waited, but; trigger...

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There once was a canary who hung out at the wharf 
It was his fort of sort 
Where there were boats 
A float 
Tied up...

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Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin N. Roberts

The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.

A century late
to be melancholy,
I...

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Rumblings in the night
 
I was trying to write the words on the screen turned 
into spatter of blood, darkness descended
A woollen mass pressing me...

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I sing praises to you under moon's watchful eye
As the ocean waves calm above from the deep
and You transform gusty winds into soft breezes.
With your...

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Love is not a prison for manipulation 
Love is not a hand full of blood or a dented boot
Love is not a magical being that...

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Whatever Floats Your Boat
By: Tom Wright
3-7-2008

Some might think it to be silly
To sit and spend time writing
But is it so much different
Than fishing, driving, or...

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