Long Masts Poems
Long Masts Poems. Below are the most popular long Masts by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Masts poems by poem length and keyword.
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
masts, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Fishing Boats On the Beach At Les SaintesFishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1888), Arles, June...
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Categories:
masts, beach, boat, fishing,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Sail By God's Compass and MapThere once was a nation that was like a beautiful tall sailing ship
It’s mast were like redwood trees lined up in a forest
They bore the stainless white sails of opportunity to catch the winds of...
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Categories:
masts, allegory, corruption, freedom, poetry, society, spiritual, storm,
Form:
Free verse
The River Mersey and the Black Pearl New BrightonThe River Mersey and The Black Pearl New Brighton
Let the Caribee and sultry sea call to the pirates bold.
But on this shore, with its tales of lore, The Mersey keeps its hold
For merchants,...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, beach, boat, imagination, river,
Form:
Verse
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 1Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
as we kissed when she parted, my friend.
Through those ruins I tread towards the footlights,...
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Categories:
masts, bird, dark, green, lost love, me, night,
Form:
Rhyme
SargassoSargasso
..by D Johnson
Fourteen days adrift time slowly slipped
on the good ship Cavalier
Becalmed, morose, no water they sipped
drank rum to calm their fear
The fog was thick o'er water and ship
On the...
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Categories:
masts, angstdeath, old, sea, water, day, death, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 11dOdyssey 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:
masts, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, sea, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1King Ptolemy the Second (cont.)
Sleek of line for speedy sailing
It was rugged in construction
Several layers of well cured timber
Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales
There were four great masts with mainsails
Han...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Those Days of Covid and Roses
Those Days of Covid and Roses
...
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Categories:
masts, america, angst, imagery, rights, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
a crow command -
I be a common salty once
no captain's bars, did bear
yet...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, courage, history, imagery, journey, sea, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 11cChapter 11c (The Island Kingdom, continued...)
Every member of the party
Had their fill of roasted sea-flesh
All the dogs and Rosy also
Wolfed down all that they could swallow
Then they rose up and departed
Heading north...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, africa, environment, history, mythology, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Futbol Mid Week Fixture FlingsWaiting for bubbles
Here on the pitch
Hope there will be no trouble
From Liverpool being in a winning niche
Known for being paper back writers
And always having the attitude of being fighters
The...
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Categories:
masts, england, games, london, night, poetry, red, soccer,
Form:
Rhyme
Phoenix Dreams In the Realm of Crows
“Phoenix Dreams in the Realm of Crows”
wake up
shake up
kaleidoscope girl
jigsaw
see saw
fit the pieces
she
another world
away
the in-betweeen
flows easily
through the veil
safe harbour
opening
portals
for ocean steering
curious kaleidoscope
stories to sew
the slip...
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Categories:
masts, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Wolf of the NorthSmooth wood
Worn by water and air
Never polished
Escaped by the hands that touched it
Ropes and tackle attached streaming up towards the sails
All foreign to a land lover.
When tied at bay she seems so tame...
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Categories:
masts, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Journey Across the SeaCastle Heartstone sank into the mists of magic
The Princess of Magic, spell cast
For one day,
we shall return
When Faeries can play
When The Wise Ways,
will always last..
Our enemies will never...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, imagination, inspirational, uplifting, visionary, world, blue,
Form:
Ballad
Behind the Sinsno one has the saddle over the wild horse by the name fate
Jose as I had known him, had a life twisted by untamed forces
gifted and talented, we were the best of buddies, our lives...
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Categories:
masts, best friend, friendship, growing up, innocence, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Clipper ShipsClipper Ships
My mother; she wasn’t there any more
Burned away in chemo radiology
Therapy for the incurable
As she lingered for a year
Lobotomized by cancer
But in her dreams she sailed her clipper ships
Sailed away on the mighty Cutty...
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Categories:
masts, mothersea, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Weather SailsWEATHER SAILS
What if the clouds themselves were like sails of a giant
Heavenly ship, its masts the very shafts of ethereal light
Cascading from Nirvana itself, white powders weather wings,
Guiding this planetary blue worlds atmosphere, in the...
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Categories:
masts, beauty, heart, imagery, inspirational, sister, tribute, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
SensitivitySENSITIVITY
They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black gravestone in New York, down in the world,
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of
The impressive strata ...
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Categories:
masts, funnynight, old, beach, feelings, night, old,
Form:
Free verse
Mark Anthony and Cleopatra-3The Egyptian standard falls, unto histories surrendering,
The deserts breath, is so stilled, under the Nile river's
Murky abyss, busted masts, heave against the
Heavily laden hauls,taring the ships apart,
As the Egyptian fleet sinks beneath...
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Categories:
masts, heartbroken, history, imagery, immigration, inspirational, international, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Ship In a BottleA 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...
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Categories:
masts, appreciation, art, boat, kids, grandparents, imagery, technology,
Form:
Ballade
Floccinaucinihilipilification and Very Little SoulFloccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Soul
(Third and Final Poem- In A Parable style)
Come on down here says the spider to fearful fly
this day weather is so fine and I am your friend
be free, and...
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Categories:
masts, art, creation, poems, poetry, poets, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Pine CathedralDeep in the woods, nearly three miles back,
far from New York with its tall glass and steel,
on a low ridge that has no proper name,
I stumble on something that feels surreal.
An old-growth forest grove, somehow...
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Categories:
masts, appreciation, beauty, imagery, nature, places, spiritual, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
High Tide ReturnsHigh Tide Returns
Once he sailed the fast Clipper of his heart
A mariner over blessed waves
Once on a fathom sea of womanhood
He drew water
To each compass point in her eyes
His sails were prayers
Laid in...
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Categories:
masts, lost loveheart, sea, heart, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Shakespeare Versus the SpanishI once knew a poet called William,
Of renown was this Stratford lad.
A writer of plays and sonnets was he
And his gags, they weren’t half bad.
Now Queen Liz wanted him to join t’ army
Cos she’d ...
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Categories:
masts, adventure, england, history,
Form:
Rhyme