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Cabin Boy Poems - Poems about Cabin Boy

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This Landscape
...the old man fluffed the pillow smoothed the blankets and lay down to sleep hoping never to wake up the price of gasoline is something impossible said the nightingale to the goldfinch have yo......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, allegory, christmas,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Clerihew Melville
...Herman Melville once a cabin boy his fiction/poetry gives such.joy As a customs mn he spent his time writing materpieces in rhyme......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Ship In a Bottle
...Eight bells. Starboard watch. Tightened up another notch. Holy upheaval rages ‘neath a cathedral sky. Losing way as the wind whips up the spray. Stormy tormentors rubbed salt in my one good eye.......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, anxiety, sea,
Form: Lyric
Tossed At Sea
...Seamen of HMS Dribble Take Sundays off just to quibble They all enjoy The Cabin boy But which of them gets "First Nibble"?......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member From Cabin Boy To Grateful Recollections By Old Sailor
...From Cabin Boy To Grateful Recollections By Old Sailor Kindness, heart and deep joy, as I remember you I child, a mere boy, innocent without a clue. Your attention and love, a blessing warm and ......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, appreciation, art, assonance, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Captain Steered Us To the Keys
...Doctor with his lanky pirate legs Aptly put together Gimpy’s pegs. On the Seven Seas Said it was a breeze We know little about Captain Meggs Please do not feed me your rotten eggs Young captu......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I Hope You Don'T Mind
...The Caribbean sky instilled magical dreams in her soul’s Safest, darkest, happiest, most exciting recesses. Pink and orange jet streams of pure joy zooming across the sky. Maggie, the fierce and ......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Leviathan Lucidity
... And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea — Rev. 21:1 Satan is king of the sea When he was cast ......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, religion, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Cabin Boy
... *** ------------------------------------- Wondering memories of wild adolescence, Flash before me like a mental Rolodex Reverberating daze, Time cannot take away. A fifteen–year–old,......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, first love, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale
...All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over. There was a calmness but once before......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, home, sea, storm, sun,
Form: Prose
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
...“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaratio......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Poseidon's Realm
...=============================== Be warned, who goes there at his helm! This corner of Poseidon's realm belongs to ME. From shiny crest to briny floor, horizons ledge to edge of shore, I OWN ......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, adventure, boat, ocean, sea,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Perdition
...A life on ships, a–sailing A–rolling on the sea Misspent days and misspent nights Ol' Davey Jones and me A wayward list, to starboard, boys A leeward tack we found We'll spend our days on the b......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, jobs, sea, voyage, work,
Form: Rhyme
A Cabin Boy
...I am but a cabin boy, upon this ship at sea, set apart to serve my captain, his weapons and his tea. I see his anger and his love, for those he does command, and they in turn show honor, for the......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, boat, courage, pride, boy,
Form: I do not know?
Portugee Sailor
...The draw of the tide... tugs away inside... remembered rekindled emotion... lived on the water ... remember i ought... Portugese, on the ocean.. cabin boy .. on a 3 masted schooner... we li......Read the rest...
Categories: cabin boy, adventurewater, water,
Form: Rhyme

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