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Landlubber Poems - Poems about Landlubber

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



Premium MemberMY 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

Premium MemberHis 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

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                           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

Premium MemberSong 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

Premium MemberAllure 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

Premium MemberSuper 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

Premium MemberWindsong

...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

Premium MemberAllure 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

Premium MemberThru 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

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Categories: landlubber, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberImagine 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

Premium MemberLandlubber 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.

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Categories: landlubber, humor, lust, sea,
Form: Limerick

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