Clipper Poems - Poems about Clipper

Years ago I did so choose, to go on a Caribbean clipper ship cruise, and, in addition to several other islands, anchored off Nevis, northwest of Saint Kitts, where, in the late 1780's, Nelson had lived, and still bears traces of his presence today, in various parts, pieces and bits. When our windjammer Skipper informed us, 'Shopping here's good, snorkeling is bad,' I...

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A blue whale spied a Yankee clipper. First, he used his tail to flip her. He gulped her whole, and feeling chipper, he closed his mouth with a zipper....

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clipper ship came sailing Saturday night pirates on board? Of course! an insane parrot too...

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I inherited a worn out clipper which made me mad. For the rest of the cousins got riches, big and bad. One got emeralds, another got diamond rings. I got a clipper ship, without the pirate loot of kings. Give it a whirl around the cape, my faerie godfather said. He is a crazy old coot, eccentric, not quite right...

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A clipper ship for my birthday please. I shall enjoy the spray of the ocean breeze. I may groan and snarl and cough and wheeze. It would be wonderful, so please do not tease. Just a second, I need some space to sneeze. Want to travel with me beyond these trees? I do not mean to be an arrogant sleaze But a...

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Grave galleon Sullen seas Spoiled rum Skeleton crew Scarecrow nest Sails trimmed Yankee Clipper 1 7/5/2021...

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C ut L oose I n P oetry P oet E re R etiring...

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Listen and you can hear the wind whisper the name of a lost ship and its skipper. The wind’s name is Favonius, winged god His sotto voce is but a whimper. Gentle breeze doth tell of China Clipper Bound back toward London by English shipper Lost from sight ten days out of Adelaide for all those involved a real...

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At 12:00 High-Noon The train Left New York For the Coast Inside, Echoed A warning From a shell High dry And remote In the boxcar …. “I’ll be back In the spring For rebuttal When the lead You have now Is worn thin “I’ll be back for one run Up the Hudson With new oars Pulling deep From within” (Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Give him five clipper And shut his big mouth The parrot...

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I think in curls that bounce in the near-Spring sunlight and brown eyes that burn with a wisdom expanding years unknown to me. Brave face. Shrug it off. This flush of red sells me out When lips meet flesh and soft words meet eardrums. My knees no longer exist. My mind no longer exists. I'll hold on to this obsession til the sun...

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Coupons—Let the Clipper Beware By Elton Camp For those who don’t know how to shop Cutting out coupons perhaps should stop Some clipper will shout in utter dismay “How can such foolishness you dare say?” “By using coupons, I get items at little cost And now you suggest that my effort is lost!” Yet, a waste of time and money they can be And...

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Clipper Ships My mother; she wasn’t there any more Burned away in chemo radiology Therapy for the incurable As she lingered for a year Lobotomized by cancer But in her dreams she sailed her clipper ships Sailed away on the mighty Cutty Sark Indomitable spirit she was Swayed by the poetry of canvas sails A sea gull riding to the rigging Until the coma took her And...

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