Halyards Poems - Poems about Halyards

...Lights flickered as evening woke the tired lagoon where wrinkled reflections and silhouettes of a million spruce steeples tickled the horizon. A chorus of slapping halyards joined......

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...They sit, seldom still, naked yet not silent - beckoning, like a wind chime concert of tapping halyards, wave slapped hulls and groaning lines where freedom hints to their captains, "To sea, t......

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...Wind ripped through the rigging blowing cold Sheets with extended billows were stiff, Unyielding, almost beyond their fold Men struggled to reef them and knew if Gale and mounting surge continued......

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...A Ship In A Bottle My great Grand Father sailed to New Zealand on a ship called the Wild Deer in 1872. I have always loved ships in bottles, and one day decided I would drain a pretty bottle of ......

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...Listen when you awake at crack of dawn hear the chorus of all the birds singing watch them as they scurry and dig the lawn until a nasty cat sends them fleeing How very dull and bland without any bi......

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...Those stars that sailors follow Guiding less the sea to swallow And the night seas black as tar Beyond the wave a land afar Halyards taught, blocks in tallow Breezes fresh and salt swallow ......

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