Gunwales Poems - Poems about Gunwales

...1. To Fly My father was an admiral, and so I joined the Navy. Back in fifty-eight to be a pilot seemed the way to go: ship-sailors were committed to a crate. Scrub decks? Paint rusting gunwales?......

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...Now far offshore and beaten by the waves, into the wind, they pulled to no effect. The choppy seas, enough to quell the brave, lept o’er the gunwales, merciless, unchecked. He came to them, the......

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...A Tale of the sea. Moonlight like little diamonds floating upon a midnight cold sea whale song eerily in the distance calls the little ship sailing on the wind taking those within to a secret ......

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...Chase the breakers out of the harbour before the customs boat appears. Strike the sails and tack to larboard then comes the old familiar fear. Will they run us, or will they gun us? Damn these ......

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...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......

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... the gods … awoke early that day for the sun had swallowed the moon and left a ragged, gaping wound in the sky … it bled darkness like cold oil threatening to stain all that they had lab......

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...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.) Sleek of line for speedy sailing It was rugged in construction Several layers of well cured timber Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales There were four ......

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...Ch. 13 b (The whale, cont.) Now the sardine hunt developed  As they glimpsed beneath the surface  Flashing rays of gold and silver Of the dolphins and the swordfish    That converged with blu......

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...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued) Matto, Lisa and their parents Contemplated now a journey On the ocean that was longer Far than any in their memory One wh......

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...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11 (d) cont... Thus the boarding of the parties Was a speedy operation Very soon the whole flotilla Sailed toward the open ocean This wide bay from which the s......

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...Chapter 11c (The Island Kingdom, continued...) Every member of the party Had their fill of roasted sea-flesh All the dogs and Rosy also Wolfed down all that they could swallow Then they r......

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...CHAPTER 3 The River While they paused to rest a moment Han gazed suddenly behind them To the south a long way distant Faintly rose a hazy ribbon From the grassland; Han spoke quietly, "L......

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...THE BUS SERVICE It was a hot affair - intensely. Older bus of the O.K. Company Coughed and roared up hills. No cure for all its ills. In and out of stuffy tunnels Packed like f......

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