Mariners Poems - Poems about Mariners

Miracles of our lady of mercy

...Oh,my dear blessed Virgin Mary,                                                                        No words to praise your miracles,                                                            Vis...

Tamarind Taciturn

...Knights of the nebula pond?
Kingdom Gone, return.
Witch and wizard, wave thy wand!
Tamarind taciturn...

Knight errant by lightning struck?
O for help to call!
Cult black magic, I've got truck...

Loyal Love

...
From life, when all else passes away
True love will stay and never ever decay 
Defying all impediments, it will survive
Leaving sweet memories, it will thrive. 

Cementing hearts, ...

The Silent Abyss

...

To rise 
 a subtle beginning 
Comes a treacherous 
prevail
If not a chance 
perhaps avail
A mariners story
Longing to tell
If to only find justice
Another day
 to set sail
...

Ancient Home

...Haibun 

Inky dark night. Jewels in the heavens sparkle like diamonds in a necklace. The Seven Sisters wink seductively while trying to sit in Cassiopeia’s Chair. Orion chases Ursa Major and her cu...

fake review

...Fake reviews 

In 1963, I ate lunch at Andrea’s café,
 her food was wonderful 
I advised mariners to go for a visit 
and be welcomed by a true lady.
I now learned that unsolicited reviews 
are...

Bone Beach

...

Relentless yearning tints unrestrained
the spectral edge of the halcyon horizon,
where the nascent scarlet sun unveils 
the facade of the decorous dawn,
brings to me across the million miles ...

I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome

...I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer el...

The Siren's call

...I do not know from where 
the cloud came -- a chilling
din voice, knowing each name
 
a phantasmagoric display 

the cheerful crew
succumbing to primal sprite

the day, soon a blaze, of stor...

In the hidden whispers of midnight, bathed in the moon's silky embrace

...In the hidden whispers of midnight, bathed in the moon's silky embrace,
Life unfolds as an involuntary odyssey, an arcane experiment,
A pilgrimage of the soul through the labyrinth of the tangible,...

Sea Shanty

...
2.  "over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge


Wailing wind amid strongest ocean storm
Night falls swiftly on tumultuous scene
Sailors ...

G And T Blues

...She sits there in seclusion
Recalling her glory days 
Before internet and SATNAV
So changed the Mariners ways.
Sat  on her eponymous rock
All the year long
She’d  lure poor sailors with
A temp...

A Shipwreck She Salvaged

...She came aboard my sinking ship
a death blow to the bow,
attempts to bail and keep afloat
this mariners tattered sails.

Plot a new course and navigate
in storms and angry seas,
this vessel li...

Battle for the Atlantic II

...With lone intent, all freedom it will wrest
if obstinance you let these wolves deny.
As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest
your struggles for survival magnify.
Each flailing ship that ferries...

A Native Lament

...When we first saw Columbus struggling ashore,
we were mildly amused.

Later, more well marinated mariners
brought with them
garlic, olive oil and tomatoes,
all of which we had no use for -
the...

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