Pearls of the orient
Where the gallants dwell
Like the jewels of the ancient
Their luster casts a spell
As precious as gem
Countless men cherish them
Their charm is a cure
To the hearts that deeply sore
Men swim the ocean
Just to have them at hand
For their radiance so divine
Makes the gloomy hearts shine
One day I shall venture
To have the pearl I most adore
Her beauty and allure
Brings rapture to the soul
Categories:
gallants, beauty, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
To be upon the sea again
And feel waves spray wetting my face
The rolling deck its pitching then
far sight of land without a trace
Make fast tops’l s, royals, gallants
Tack now, sheets need to pickup slack
Ship’s degree from breeze compliance
Play it for a double league Jack
We be for Shanghai where tea waits
To fill our hold for London town
Baring bad turn by fickle fates
Safely back for the British crown.
To be upon the sea once more
I’ll take my place at jammer’s wheel
And feel its kick and trying chore
Then take my eats at evening meal
Categories:
gallants, ocean,
Form: Quatrain
THE PALMS
As dawn child brings a new illumination
Among the palms are hints of gentle motion
Their fronds now stir in elegant activation
Like ladies with refinement: a devotion
Their fluent gestures smoothing interaction
Smiles bows and fans precluding all infraction
As day advances so increasing breeze
Lends greater life to trees and single boughs
The movement still of graceful bending ease
With strength and rhythm in their measures now
Our ladies pair with gallants to advance
The shapes and movements of a courtly dance
With each increase of wind, zephyr to gale
Their motions are more restless in reaction
'til branches thrash in protest at the travail
Separate or clinging daring final fraction
At the end they live the turmoil staying whole
And return to temper tranquil free of toll
Have these trees collective recall - eight days in history
They were spread with glad 'Hosannas!' to greet a King
But in less than a week to witness the tragic mystery
When darkness enveloped the land, and all hope took wing
Did they thrash and writhe to protest unjust, cruel inequity
Yet, the third day, stand in new hope and beauteous serenity
Categories:
gallants, beauty, nature, religion,
Form: Rhyme
I'm coming back to you, Sooling. I'm on my way.
Hear the sheets flapping in the gallants and royals.
The spray is wet upon my cheeks and in my beard.
Soon we anchor at Lahaina in the Sandwich Islands
where we take on supplies and refit the ship.
There's a right smart breeze this morn and we sail
before it. The sky is red and the sea seems
to take on its color in places. There are whitecaps
and each one by the boards only means that I'm that
much closer to you. My Sooling, my Sooling. I love you so
and that English town I left behind was so cold and foggy.
Sooling ---- I want to hold you again in my arms and kiss
your soft lips beneath a beautiful South Sea
sky within the gentle darkness of you bamboo home.
I want to hear you say, " My Jack, I love you."
Scallywag stays but a short time in Lahaina. I'm coming
back to you my Sooling.
Categories:
gallants, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
When you're topside in the gallants
and you're lookin' up at waves,
the wind's ascreemin' madness
intent on many graves.
The mate has said: "Lay aloft!",
and Third was on his way,
you scrambled up the shrouds windward
and laid to right away.
Now it's one hand for yourself
an' one hand for the ship,
oft hangin' on by eyelash
to last this windswept trip.
We be iron men from Denmark
an' seamen everyone.
We bring this ship to Scotia,
no loss for anyone.
Now it's one hand for yourself
an' one hand for the ship,
oft hangin' on by eyelash
to last this windswept trip.
Categories:
gallants, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
A Beautiful Sailing Ship
Great white sheets spread before Auster's wind seem to fly.
She sails ocean rout's course coming from East Indies.
My eyes take in ship's sight: be her goods Celanese?
High top-gallants with main-royals full blown in sky.
Gale speeds merchantman's race toward home with pennant high.
White capped bowsprit now seen pitching through waves with ease.
Spray goes by the boards - rainbows in a right strong breeze.
SeaQueen makes for where huge London town markets lie.
She takes tea and cloth, jewels from Maylay Isles.
Cargo's weight is worth nine million in sterling paid.
Sleek windjammer still needs travel far thousand miles.
Fine East Indian prize conducting Bombay trade.
Bold coast pirates could be menace with corsair wiles.
Queen's speed keeps her well safe- no chance of carvel raid.
Copyright © ramfire ... [2002-07-11 09:42:33]
Categories:
gallants, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
1.Can love be constrained?
lover’s tears reveal.
2.Love-less live selfish but
loving men generous.
3.Fruit of body and
soul is love.
4.Love sprouts longing which
metamorphoses lovely friendship
5.Ecstasy of kind-hearted is
reward of love.
6.For ignorants love, charity
but for gallants?
7.As sun burns worms
charity harms loveless
8.Loveless life as sapless-trees
grow in desert.
9.What use lovely outlook
if loveless soul?
10Life means love, rest
skin covered skeleton
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Dedicated to Thiruvalluvar(31B.C), the author in Tamil
Translated by S.Kandasamy, MUSIRI, TAMILNADU, INDIA
Published in poetry.com on 7-12-13
Categories:
gallants, life,
Form: Couplet
Turn on the night
Let the light shine in,
The zeal of the hour
Beholds the time from within.
Usher me the epic dawn, sublime…
And the euphoric mortality,
Power me the magic harmony, cleansing of the calls
And the divine spirituality.
The thoughts of the mourning mass
Demon-spells the freedom muse,
The placebo affects of the light divine
Stone scripts the wonder views.
I hear some say,
Life is not a waiting room,
Follow the path of the heart
Or else awaits the wrath of doom!
Steadfast the glorious
Beyond the depth of the obvious,
The wisdom of my might
Gallants my kingdom to the victorious.
(C) Obaidur Rahman. Published in the poet’s debut book of English poetry titled “The Mystic Inferno” in 2012.
Categories:
gallants, spiritual,
Form: Ballad
Feet in flowing stream...
Torn, wearily strolling by:
Yesterday's gallants.
Categories:
gallants, international, veterans day, war,
Form: Haiku
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla – 5
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Learned Flamenco to strut at Feria
Eyes flashed to kill gallants
Bitten by red hot ants
Now at ferias she sells tortia.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
gallants, humor,
Form: Limerick
Tall trees
on each side of
the deep wood's shadowed path
guide me out. . . my gallant
escorts.
Submitted Oct. 7, 2022
for Line Gauthier's Bitesize Poem No.53 Poetry Contest
Categories:
gallants, nature,
Form: Cinquain
O my heart, my heart is there tonight
Where hibiscus at the fence side flower the light
Of stars in Verletta's eyes, O I'd write
Her poems if she knew how to read what delight
Queens that stood before a window pane
Where a lonely Knight scribbled sorrow to his gain
But I too polite, set my suite before vain
Any hope now she remembers my name. O fain!
Do you now recall the red dirt school yard
The mocking children around fear, and the boy hard
Put to ignore you there? Day's light discard
The evening in shards of shadows, but my regard
For you in time's journey follows your flight
From the village gate to judges bench, where you fight
The ridicules that wrenched us, and the spite
Self-centered in the ego of children of a moral plight.
O Verletta, I think of you tonight, for you rose
Out of the dingy Mountainside, better justice to expose
While the wrong upon my heart no one knows
This love I bore you, this longing for you undisclosed
To gallants that did a coat romantically spread
Before a queen wh dungeoned them and desired their head
I unlike them would yield all El Dorados to wed
Your dreams to mine, and share the solace of your bed.
Categories:
gallants, loveheart, longing, children, heart,
Form: Light Verse
Billowing white
A tall masted ship
Gleaming wet
Sped on
In to a setting sun
Mizzen and top gallants flying
Such golden light
Fell upon a ship
That sped on
In to the setting sun
Billowing white
Translucent too
Such golden llight
Fell upon a ship
That shone
On the big blue
In to the setting sun
She sailed westwards
Followeed a setting sun
Disappeared with it too
Golden light
Replaced with blue
She sailed westwards
Golden light shone too
A ship
Swallowed in colour
In to the setting sun
Categories:
gallants, mystery, sea, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Ballad