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Brigantine Poems - Poems about Brigantine


a shipmaster in love
...a shipmaster in love The boat that left at sunset didn't have red sails but fading sunlight painted grey sail red even though the vessel was not going to China  not this year or any other year,......

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Categories: brigantine, absence, africa, age, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sail With Me, My Love
...Sail with me, my love on our hearts brigantine ship of sails where our soul will find love's dead reckoning under the sail where the heart's passionate wind will carry us across our sea of emoti......

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Categories: brigantine, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Embraced Between Sea and Stars
...I had my first glimpse of her from the sandy beach, her silhouette painted on the sky's canvas of peach The regal double-mast brigantine, sailing out to sea Upon waves she rode, full glory not yet......

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Categories: brigantine, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Light
...My father left this rocky coast Upon a southbound brigantine; To make his fortune, he did boast, Six months along the Argentine. A lighthouse lit our lonely cove For more than fifty years in a......

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Categories: brigantine, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A World of Boundless Black
...In my distal conception you shine like a lucent star whose touch fondles the fret and strings of my guitar. An image worth painting in oils with my sable brush, your voice like the recherche l......

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Categories: brigantine, emotions,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Washed Ashore
...My body washed unbidden on your shore Tossed by life's waves to be maroon I shall sail waves desperate never more As I found love in your sheltered lagoon I have nothing, no jeweled treasure to s......

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Categories: brigantine, giving, love, magic,
Form: Sonnet
Fulsome Rock
...Then Captain Thompson told a tale of whales, of Davy Jones and seas that take mens' lives. Of raging waters cold with great strong gales, that drive his vessel deep although man strives. A story ......

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Categories: brigantine, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
A Bet Made - Decuain
...This time in June as days are fair and bright, Brig Copenhagen takes her leave from coast to sail on Java's way for copra white. Bet's made with schooner Captain Jake that most in Brigantine retu......

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Categories: brigantine, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survivor
...Life's waves washed me upon your Island shore Tossed by rolling seas, a torn heart maroon You found me, the sea and sand no more Gave caring love in your sheltered lagoon I had nothing, no jewele......

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Categories: brigantine, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
A Day Dream
...Rowed upon a pond today At least in my daydreams Cast a line for trout or bass Life’s never what it seems The pole turned into harpoon line My trout into a whale My row boat to a brigantine ......

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Categories: brigantine, children,
Form: Light Verse
Ghost Ship
...Ghost Ship Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand. The ship originally named the Amazon, was 103 feet long She w......

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Categories: brigantine, history,
Form: Couplet

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