Going Ashore Poems - Poems about Going Ashore

...shore leave The ship, in the bay, had a load of grain from the fertile soil of Ukraine, loaded in Odesa, and sent on its way across the Black Sea. In the Dardanelles, a stop for inspections to......Read the rest...

...Once, in America I saw a wonderful picture of a female soldier coming home after a tour of duty defending America against the enemy In Syria or some other contested country. She embraces her d......Read the rest...

...The legs Sitting in shorts. on the terrace, I bought ten years ago I try to get a tan hiding them from the devastation of time. Several vessels in the bay, I wonder what kept me sailing long a......Read the rest...

...An oil port He is looking on to shore and sees an oil terminal waiting for the pilot, he may arrive today or tomorrow. Well he is not going ashore at this Arab port it is usually boring full o......Read the rest...

...A view of the fifties lifebuoy, A soap a remember well on ships there was no other soap it had a strong masculine scent for those who didn't use Floyd aftershave. We seamen were a clean race a......Read the rest...

...The hustle and the bustle of the port is all around The shouting of the merchants quoting prices by the pound The throwing of supplies over gunwales is all but done The time has come for us to le......Read the rest...

...The Catering officer Once upon a time, I was a seaman; I began as a galley boy and after six months was promoted to the second cook, What dizzying height. At home, I went to a catering school for ......Read the rest...

...An Actor`s life My life as an artist lasted long although no one saw me acting only that my behaviour changed if I had read a book and liked the hero in it, or seen a western movie; became that p......Read the rest...

...Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs, they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river most of the m......Read the rest...

...Sir Henry Morgan, Welsh born Wasn't a pirate but a privateer so it's shown As he had a document from King Charles II Authorising to attack enemy ships for gain His most famous attack was on Pa......Read the rest...

...Debris There was a time when I was a seaman travelled with a cardboard suitcase and my best shoes wrapped in newspaper. I always wore khaki mainly because people would think I was an America......Read the rest...

...Spring rain; river overflows, shallow lake fills. Riding a log, two girls explore the flotsam, Find boat; old, damaged, half sunk, ruined, mostly. They shout out, show teasing boys, schoo......Read the rest...

...The Loss of Innocence At a school sports day I was running 60 metres, I wanted so very much to win, could taste blood didn´t quite make it but got a bronze medal, which I wore on my lapel wit......Read the rest...

...Costa Rica (outcast) When going ashore in Puerto Lemon (Costa Rica) we had to walk through a park were the town’s people sat or walked enjoying the evening breeze. They didn’t like us, we’re unc......Read the rest...

...Constantly trying to get something for oneself-- Sit down, you're rocking the boat. Constantly trying to have the last word-- Sit down, you're rocking the boat. Constantly judging yourself an......Read the rest...