Long Mainsail Poems
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you'll be a man, tomorrow
You’ll be a man tomorrow, child, yes,
If you respect animals and pristine nature,
If you don’t kill elephants for ivory,
If you don’t kill the whales for soap,
You’ll be a man if you can stop time
If you...
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Categories:
mainsail, cheer up, education, future, literature,
Form:
Quatrain
Odyssey From Africa 11d
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 ships set
Sail is called the...
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Categories:
mainsail, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, sea, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Societal Drift
There has never been a time since
Societies emerged,
In any generation where
Communities diverged.
Mankind is like the animals
Who gather into herds;
Proving he is no different
Than mammals, fish and birds.
It isn’t easy to accept,
But we can see what’s...
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Categories:
mainsail, life, philosophy, socialtime, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet 3 More Excerpts From the Lost Book of Tuberlantis
Retrieved Passage 6:
From The Book of Days - The Cellar
Don't send me down to the cellar
I swear I won't do it again
lest my sanity goes inter-stellar
and I beat myself senseless in vain
Don't send me down...
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Categories:
mainsail, crazy, deep, gothic, humor, humorous, nonsense, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
Harpoons To Ready
I am a young man, to Nantucket I've traveled
never before have I been out to Sea,
here in the Harbor, I've spotted the Pequod
I knew then and there, that ship was for me,
Ishmael is my name,I...
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Categories:
mainsail, adventure, drink,
Form:
Lyric
Alone Again
Cold rains, wet and weary... seeping through the sky,
spectres pass ’long side me... bent, with collars high,
my visions are invisible and no one sees me cry.
Minstrels of destruction... rapping at my door,
naked anvils aching... heavy...
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Categories:
mainsail, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Bounty 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 main
the sea was growling in...
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Categories:
mainsail, adventure, nature, ocean, sea, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
Barco Do Boa Vista 2
Barco do Boa Vista 2
Windswept, worn and weary sails
You might think that this boat ails
But with sound and sturdy, solid mast
She sails the ocean's waves at last
There was one here not long before her
But...
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Categories:
mainsail, art, beach, fantasy, imagination, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
sky scraper
I was …
awake …
in the crow’s nest
but doing all I could to not nod off
we had been through storms that day and
all the previous night
(such was the North Bering)
so not a soul had slept
‘til now...
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Categories:
mainsail, analogy, history, sea,
Form:
Free verse
The Pirates Life
He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a hooked claw.
The parrot on his shoulder,
is a wannabee,
a sparrow that...
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Categories:
mainsail, adventure, funny, imagination, life, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Free From the Killick
I'm not a seafarer, but took a risk and dove right in,
as if from cliff height and wound up floundering
in the dark abysmal depths of a roiling ocean.
From pages of 'The Rime of the Ancient...
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Categories:
mainsail, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Sail To a Deal
Britain sets sail to find a deal.
A lengthy voyage now starts.
The captain plots the way ahead
with complex EU charts
from the Maritime Directive
in all its ninety parts.
Oh what a frightful sea to sail
to reach the land...
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Categories:
mainsail, confusion, courage, destiny, international, journey, ocean, political,
Form:
Ballad
There Are No Clouds
Cast off the mooring ropes at bow and stern
Head out into the early morning mist
Hoist the big mainsail, free the jib, and turn
Feeling the filling canvas make her list
The venerable diesel chugs and splutters
Its smoky...
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Categories:
mainsail, boat, feelings, ocean, sea, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
Transitional Poetry
What gets possibly gained from poetic encounters?
A friendship sets sail though mast’s shadows can’t merge
more than sheets in the wind that two sailors might set in defiance
of oceans, whose trembling waves surf on their opposite...
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Categories:
mainsail, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Cruise To Alaska
The trip was a riot of color,
It brings a myriad of queries,
Fantastic tales of utter darkness,
Views' visible roots were explored.
Mainsail surges,
pungent froth carried wave tips while,
blast swings moaning openly.
superb mountains,
Convey streams into streaming rivers,
Down...
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Categories:
mainsail, analogy, appreciation, mountains, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Lonely Lighthouses
Eyes of light beams pierce ocean air
as Neptune rests within his lair.
Sentinels hand-made of stone,
that keepers used to call their home;
guide travelers, sailors on their way
a lovely sight both night and day.
Though today they’re automatic,
once...
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Categories:
mainsail, appreciation, nature, ocean, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Cee a Dull Gull
A DULL GULL
So many people are intrepid sailors
I am but a sinking ship
Other people sale safely through stormy weather
As I watch my mainsail rip
So many sailors have such sturdy masts
Caressed by canvas and the wind’s...
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Categories:
mainsail, angst, people, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Free Cee a Dull Gull
A DULL GULL
So many people are intrepid sailors
I am but a sinking ship
Other people sale safely through stormy weather
As I watch my mainsail rip
So many sailors have such sturdy masts
Caressed by canvas and the wind’s...
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Categories:
mainsail, angst, people, people,
Form:
Quatrain
The Mighty Frigate
Let us make ready and set sail
This mighty frigate will prevail
We will see what we will see
Mother Sea is calling me
The Mainsail, Lanteen and Jib are set
First Mate, Boatswain and crew are the best yet
Captain...
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Categories:
mainsail, courage, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Windjammer
We meandered along the cays in June
Our blistered feet untoughened,
White with ooze and sand
Caring the least for nothing
Save taut sail and steady breeze
And good news from home.
Cap steered as rudder let
The clipper sensed his...
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Categories:
mainsail, adventure, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Earth and Fire In a Splash
My love on the surf
I can’t stop the wave
Of two hearts in a crush
Earth and fire in a splash
Sunset in her eyes
Sparkling love rays
In the arms of a sea breeze
Blowing her wildest dreams
The beach is...
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Categories:
mainsail, beach, love, summer,
Form:
Lyric
Once Upon a Journey Made
And once upon a journey made
did I first ride the wind
far from the scented verdant glade
with mainsail fully trimmed.
The salted sea is memory,
my days of sail long passed,
where death was bound by destiny
to vacant shores...
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Categories:
mainsail, seajourney,
Form:
Ballad
Gone
Who will set the mainsail and chart the course?
Now that the ship’s captain has gone away?
Calm the crew when the sea rages with force?
Now who will stand the helm day after day?
His schooner swings gently...
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Categories:
mainsail, loss,
Form:
Free verse