Danapoint
...I wanted to see sailing ships again so I went to Dana Point last week to revisit the Brig Pilgrim, gift from Denmark to the United States honoring Henry Richard Dana’s voyage around Cape Horn in 1...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
foremast, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Only a Lighthouse
...How black the seas in a pounding storm!
The lanterns were all blown out.
Only the lights within still burned
For crewmen strong and stout.
The flash from the clouds would scarce reveal
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
foremast, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Sea Shanty
...As they were sailing ‘cross the ocean deep
They watched the sunrise and the diving grebe.
When up in the top, the lookout did spy
A storm advancing, with his weather eye.
The helmsman heeded the wo...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
foremast, death,
Form: Couplet
Went Down She Did
...
" Went Down She Did "
Twere that Fantome went down went down so she did
Chosen she that Devil against then so to bid
Her souls naught but bravest... bravest thirty-three
As fury o'that temp...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
foremast, adventure, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Justice
...Visualize my children and you shall look
Upon the voyage of Captain James R. Cook;
It was the eighteenth of January in Seventeen Seventy-Eight;
Hardly a Hawaiian can forget the Date;
What befell ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
foremast, history, god, missing, god,
Form: Ballad