Long Starboard Poems
Long Starboard Poems. Below are the most popular long Starboard by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Starboard poems by poem length and keyword.
Marlino
Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
starboard, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
The Moon Also Rises - the Midwatch
The Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch
Harry Mayer
The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.
“I’ll take that bet and raise you”
is what the Bo’sun says
from the...
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Categories:
starboard, humor, military, sea,
Form:
ABC
Storm Warning
I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...
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Categories:
starboard, adventure, fun, life, storm, summer, teen, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Brace For Impact
I'd finished work early so I went, to pick the kids up from school
I thought this time tomorrow, we'll all be bathing in the pool
We were travelling tonight on a family vacation to Spain
I put...
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Categories:
starboard, children, family, flying, sea, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Titanic
The most famous luxurious passenger liner built by man on this Earth
Upon completion South Hampton
It was berth
Built between 1909 & 1911
It was a display of grace
A picture of Heaven
Powered by pressurised steam from
Burning coals
In a...
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Categories:
starboard, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream Catcher
The skipper had sailed quite a few storms and survived
Strong as a cross hanging over an apocalypse’s altar he
Had weathered all seasons and crossed heaven and hell
Tempted his fate and good fortune at times but...
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Categories:
starboard, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Mistletoe
The sun upon my face blinds me as my boat rocks gently
through the rolling swells that lap against the hull.
The sound of the droning engine mesmerizes my mind
bringing a dreaminess to this bright cool...
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Categories:
starboard, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Prose
RMS Titanic
Built by Harland and Wolff in the shipyards of Belfast
A luxurious gigantic cruise ship that they built to last
She was an Olympic class liner of the White Star Line
No expense was spared in construction she...
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Categories:
starboard, natural disasters, new york, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 12d, 13a
Chapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.)
As they held their breath and waited
For a flame to catch the fire flowers
Finally a smoky ribbon
Drifted upwards from the petals
Gradually the flowers smouldered
And a filmy smoke ascended
With an aromatic odour
As...
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Categories:
starboard, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
I am a Force of Nature
I visit the bug zapper on Tuesday
much to the radiology teams delight
I named it thus before meeting it formally
my comedic self puts up this type of dust
If you make fun of it enough
it can't cause...
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Categories:
starboard, business,
Form:
Free verse
Song of the Seamen and Their Ship Called Mary Rose
Mary Rose, the mighty sailing sea vessel glided majestically across the waves
She had robustly and bravely sailed the briny waves for many a night and day
With the ocean's heaving gusting squalls blowing off proud...
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Categories:
starboard, adventure, fear, inspirational, natural disasters, nature, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Stained Glass Pane
One day—
The sea will be my backyard
Every morning, standing upon the deck
Of the one called Going Numb
A “Greatest Dad” mug in one hand
My last vice burning orange in the other
I will watch the sun rise...
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Categories:
starboard, age,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing Ghosts In Cars
“Chasing Ghosts in Cars”
Like automata
we walk inside
winding up the stairs
it’s all mechanical
the romance
programmed
by steep degrees
in the
well-routined
we can walk
through walls
anywhere
to look out
our windows
towards the better view
each cell in...
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Categories:
starboard, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Message In a Bottle
"Sometimes preservation is the surest road to ruin."
I took a walk along the ocean down by the sea,
I prefer them both together I’m sure that you’ll agree.
...
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Categories:
starboard, fantasy, ocean, , cute,
Form:
Light Verse
Time Slip Not
When they pleasure powered down to rest,
their twin-engine heart was beating still
at the arterial warp speed of galactic love
With the endorphin catalyst fuel shutdown,
the rocket passion blast
was nearing impulse horizontal inertia
The space mariner woman...
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Categories:
starboard, allusion, love, science, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Change the Opening Theme and We Gotta Deal
from the tagboard media group.....
the Kelp Seaworthy Report....
Kelp)......... did you know, that Saturday Night Wrestling
returns to the Mid-Town Civic Center
get your tickets now..... we know the people In Dolbane
like there wrestling.. and we gotta...
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Categories:
starboard, dance, guitar, introspection, music, myth, smart, sports,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *
...
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Categories:
starboard, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea, sky,
Form:
Couplet
Star Paths:
A poem I shall attempt to write of heavenly delight,
About all the wonders that shine deep in the night.
There is so much more than the Moon and stars above,
From the earliest navigators that fell heavily...
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Categories:
starboard, beauty, boat, ocean, sea, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Leaving Harbor
The hustle and the bustle of the port is all around
The shouting of the merchants quoting prices by the pound
The throwing of supplies over gunwales is all but done
The time has come for us...
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Categories:
starboard, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
There come those nights—you know the sort:
The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window,
Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song that only she knows.
She’s...
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Categories:
starboard, love, metaphor, moon, nature, sea,
Form:
Free verse
X
In those bleak fields that so quietly lie - stilled as graves,
Between where the thin wind creaks and upwardly heaves,
Unseen feet can sometimes be heard
Shuffling through the old woods discarded leaves.
For i have seen...
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Categories:
starboard, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pirates of Wales
The Challenge ~ The Milford Haven Harbor shielded Wales
from pirates making merchant ships their prey.
Her ports have cradled many from the gales
and swaddled sailors as her pirates play.
The Irish and the Celtic Sea are veils
for...
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Categories:
starboard, adventure,
Form:
Sonnet
Forewarning of Dawn
A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice
Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in one of several boats,
severed from the blue-green sea,
nevermore to scurry...
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Categories:
starboard, dark, scary, sea,
Form:
Couplet
The Lusitania (Part Two)
Explosions rock the boat;
Ocean gushes inside.
The battered stern won't float,
All controls lock their slide.
Listing fifteen degrees,
The lifeboats fail to launch.
Swift decent lugs a squeeze
Impossible to staunch.
After mounting seconds
The vessel starts to slow,
While the stark deep...
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Categories:
starboard, history, war
Form:
Ballad
The Flying Dutchman
Hoisted high Black flags sail,
Camouflaged by a misty veil,
A bow braced with forward guns,
Upon a ship no-one outruns,
This sight was seen through a scope,
A view of horror crushing all hope,
Terror races through the ship,
For...
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Categories:
starboard, dark, death, myth, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme