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Drop Anchor Poems - Poems about Drop Anchor

Premium Member Love For Sail
...Love was in the wrong places Out of luck, there'd none at all Veered cross his eyes on faces Ebbed men and numbers to call Twilight drops an altered star ......

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Categories: drop anchor, analogy, appreciation, destiny, innocence,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Tails Up
...Commercial season in its full swing boats afloat dot foggy harbor scene we're off like a prom dress let's catch a mega-mess barbs a'flyin', some even obscene Wish 'em up! Catch 'em up! Bend ......

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Categories: drop anchor, environment, fish, fun, games,
Form: Limerick



The Asphalt Sea
...I bought an RV , that's where I'm living these days.. Living and learning all the RVing ways. When I awoke this morning it was raining 'round here. But my RV wasn't leaking and that filled me ......

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Categories: drop anchor, happiness, poetry, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abalone Bed
...The channel islands off the coast of California were my home on weekends sailing with my dad on glassy seas, on froth and foam. On Fridays after work he’d head to Catalina on the wind. Someti......

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Categories: drop anchor, father son,
Form: Rhyme
God On Earth
...What better place than here to be To stop drop anchor and rest aboard my floating throne and dotted upon by endless servants feeding me grapes of wrath And take in all of this ethereal wor......

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Categories: drop anchor, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: drop anchor, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: drop anchor, analogy, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Laura Lee's Funeral
...Laura Lee's Funeral 1. We are traveling on the infinite ship From our forgotten harbor To our unknown port of call Beneath impassive stars......

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Categories: drop anchor, absence, allegory, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Home
...You wait for me, in the sweet nest I made for us; this abode is base camp and our roost, to us a mansion grand . . . but, in reality it is an aging dwelling, with croo......

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Categories: drop anchor, family, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Aborigine Diggers
...The warrior stands on one leg in the sun And watches the British fleet drop anchor These strange white men raise their flag And the warrior’s land is stolen from him Over the years they say the......

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Categories: drop anchor, war,
Form: Free verse
The Lake
...(after Alphonse de Lamartine) Thus, ever driven onward to new shores, borne constantly away, Can we never, in the Ocean of the Ages, drop anchor for a day? Oh, this beautiful lake! The year ......

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Categories: drop anchor, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Where I Want To Go
...I'd love to buy a boat and sail the seas Just loaf and let the string of life unwind Drop anchor anytime or place I please To visit every island I can find I'd sail from cape to cape, from gulf......

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Categories: drop anchor, adventure, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Sonnet
Sail Away With Me
...Well and I know these lakes like The back of my hand I used to like to be on the open Waters alone the serenity made me Feel strong but now after meeting You I am a new man and now I'd Like not......

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Categories: drop anchor, boyfriend, water, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yo-Ho-Ho and Shiver Me Timbers
...Yo-Ho-Ho And Shiver Me Timbers Shiver me timbers and loosen me limbers I sail me sloop until it lin’ers And drop anchor in t’ nearest lagoon Bury me treasure chest full o’ d......

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Categories: drop anchor, boat, imagery, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Hollow
...I am the hope inside That feeds on tide and wind As ocean shores abide A storm's subsiding din I am the joy that died Before the world took wing Where cold and dark things hide Benea......

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Categories: drop anchor, mythology, philosophy,
Form: Verse

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