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Helmsman Poems - Poems about Helmsman

Premium MemberBounty of the Sea

...'Twas dawn and all the sky blazed red.
The tell-tales snapped like waving flags.
The keening wind was full of dread;
all surplus sails were stowed in bags.
 
Though somewhere on the restless mai...
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Categories: helmsman, adventure, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSimple Sailor Sam

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"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar”...Lord Byron
I love to be upon the sea
When’er the tides are high 
For rough sea...
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Categories: helmsman, appreciation, character, sea,
Form: Ballade



Premium MemberThrough the prism of the soul, a mysterious alliance of reflections is bound

...Through the prism of the soul, a mysterious alliance of reflections is bound,
Pieced together from shards of worlds lost under bare soles.
Streams of betrayal trickle over the skin, constructing ru...
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Categories: helmsman, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTears in the night

...Tears in the night
In unwritten chronicles, time embraces me with its fear,
On the shore of refusal, I withdraw, without wishing to be close to any soul.
My tears, mercurial, weave experiences hid...
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Categories: helmsman, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the odyssey of my soul, I have sailed seas of uncharted destiny

...In the odyssey of my soul, I have sailed seas of uncharted destiny,
Embarked on the ship of time, under the flag of a stormy youth.
Six years under the starry sky, I forged myself among the wave cr...
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Categories: helmsman, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Voyage by Max Burchett

...by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett

Set sail on an ocean,
An unknown sea,
At times adrift, unknown destination,
No compass or charts to see.

No return to original harbor
I must sa...
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Categories: helmsman, destiny, fate, journey, life,
Form: Lyric

Homes At Night

...A living, breathing source of
Love-flamy light.
For what does each, in the heart
Stir up at night.

Though down in roads' sea-rolled view
Drunken, fogged most
Peninsula-prominent.
Safe helmsm...
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Categories: helmsman, home, night,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThought of the Day

...prioritising gentling each emote ~
we become the helmsman of God’s love boat...
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Categories: helmsman, spiritual,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFeeling Love

...Life is short, use it
Grow love, bit by bit
We can
In staid stillness sit
Bliss is soul’s summit
Heart scan
When head and heart fit
Lamp of love is lit
Oh man

Fear is the hit man 
But if ...
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Categories: helmsman, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeef Jerkey and a Bottle of Wine

...A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog. 
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman 
Strains to see beyond the wheel. 
The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan. 
It’s his ...
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Categories: helmsman, adventure, sea,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberShip In a Bottle

...Eight bells.
Starboard watch.
Tightened up another notch.
Holy upheaval rages ‘neath a cathedral sky.
Losing way as the wind whips up the spray.
Stormy tormentors rubbed salt in my one good eye....
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Categories: helmsman, anxiety, sea,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberYonder Lighthouse

...Yonder lighthouse stood for eighty-six years
To warn frightened sailors of storm’s dark peril
A soothing beacon for lonely seamen’s wives’ fears
Yonder lighthouse stood for eighty-six years
Where...
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Categories: helmsman, light, sea,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberTo Boldly Go

...My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the transporter room where I'd dematerialize
And within seconds...
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Categories: helmsman, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme

Homophonous Intervention

...I was sailing with my friends to explore 
the site with my sight

I stand on the edge and see a sea

Quickly grabbed my blue whistle and blew
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Categories: helmsman, fun, imagination, poetry, word
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnd the Jack Tars Will Sing

...Across the roaring 40’s
I sail
I fly
She’s in a hurry
To reach out
That Southern land
Like a horse
That knows the way home
She bucks
She sways
Her cloth
Slides across the wind
Hell or hig...
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Categories: helmsman, sea, wind,
Form: Free verse

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