Gloomy international waters
...Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons
How will...
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Categories:
landlubber, addiction, depression, father son,
Form: Free verse
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...
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Categories:
landlubber, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
MY Capt'n
...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All s...
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Categories:
landlubber, appreciation, character, destiny, father
Form: Chant Royal
Move on over ole Joe
...Move on over ole Joe...
and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.
You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories:
landlubber, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
His Overboard Tale
...Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and
freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.
—H.P. Lovecraft, The Best of H.P. Lovecraft:
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabr...
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Categories:
landlubber, fear, sea,
Form: Free verse
her's slip'd on she in mate's slops
....
Yarrrrr
'course I know'd
my purty wanted tuh sail wit
her corsair
she be no landlubber
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Categories:
landlubber, adventure, allegory, character, courage,
Form: Epyllion
Song of The Albatross No 13: AABB
...Edge what remains their last hope, be enshrined,
be the breeding atolls summoned to mind.
Albatross are one of the bird's largest.
These goliath's wingspans are the longest,
which makes them less...
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Categories:
landlubber, allusion, analogy, appreciation, bird,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Allure of the Sea
...the allure of the sea
divulged to me
a whitecap's primeval roar
waves gently lapping the shore
come ye, landlubber
her hidden bosom awaits
swirling waters' pleasures
na...
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Categories:
landlubber, my child, nature, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Super Glue Will Do Too
...A confirmed landlubber is my friend Pete
At water sports my friend Pete can't compete
Once he tried on some skis
Almost drowned in the sea
Going rafting? ~ Batten down Pete's aisle se...
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Categories:
landlubber, friend, silly, sports, water,
Form: Limerick
Windsong
...Briny tis vast bethrong
Balsam swept windsong
Droplets align brusque seas
Sailors beware perilous lees
Fickle fathoms she weeps
Discorded notion steeps
Coquet tempest squall
Bounden to cele...
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Categories:
landlubber, sea, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Allure of the Sea
...The Sea summons sailors, sending waves
lapping at curiosity's shores.
Offering a world with no locked doors;
She harbors treasures and salty graves.
And though oft as gentle as the bree...
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Categories:
landlubber, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Gibbering Jabbering Gibberish Haint No Recipe To Sound Glib
...Ofttimes yours truly assiduously tries to adlib,
but blubbers like a landlubber
at sea treading water donned with bib
(that doubles as yellow
spongy bobbing life jacket)
furiously doing doggy ...
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Categories:
landlubber, addiction, assonance, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Thru Maritime Miles
...Thru maritime miles of minions in motion
We hedge our opinions while pledging devotion
To serving the Captain and sharing our smiles
Through barrels of onions and flea-bearing trials
But even ...
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Categories:
landlubber, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
Form: Epic
Imagine a Mermaid
...Imagine a mermaid,
she throws her buxom body
onto the granite rock.
She is steady, will not slide
unlike the terrified witnesses
that dare not
damp their feet on blackened rock.
The warnin...
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Categories:
landlubber, sea,
Form: Free verse
Landlubber S Reckoning
...Landlubber’s Reckoning
On land, a perfectly good wife.
She’d give and he’d take with no strife.
Her loins are an urn.
Her lantern does burn.
Unknown to her — he’s a low life.
A win...
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Categories:
landlubber, humor, lust, sea,
Form: Limerick
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