Mariners Poems - Poems about Mariners

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...I have soared above the Redwoods in their youth Touched tips of frosted frigid icy peaks Lifted weary aching migratory wings Swept through the oily tint of present day Enraged the sea, drove sh......Read the rest...

...The ancient jagged rocks stand, like black sentinels along the waterside, Protecting the land from the continuous raging tide. They are perpetually black, either slicked with water or as a sharp ......Read the rest...

...The Whaling City Like many working cities, from time long past, This place too, captured a man’s hearts and mind, And so, they came, tired, drawn, weary, seekers, Castaways and drifters see......Read the rest...

...("Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic) Left Brain Right Brain The two halves of our brain exist like opposites in our world but as wholes within our heads. Sometimes it seems t......Read the rest...

...>>>>>>>>> Seeing a moment in life when time passed, I say like a new pearl added too, upon a string of others, transcends, crystalize int......Read the rest...

...He sang of the wreck of 1975 Memorializing sailors who didn't survive Honouring heroes in the story he tells Visiting the cathedral still ringing its bells 29 chimes every year for their souls ......Read the rest...

...There are little, lost islands of humanity, That are afloat among a great sea of concrete. As they gaze upon a ravaged horizon, Where the shoreline seems far and obsolete. ......Read the rest...

...Ocean turmoil waves thrash with pure fury Remote stalwart lighthouse on bed of rock Shaft of light warning ship sails securely Wild elements bombard around the clock. On the darkest of ......Read the rest...

...dusted canyons wild children play blackbird finding its way home Jesus said i should take more care wanderings to smooth the soul Solitude my melancholy way who tussles these days? I do not ......Read the rest...

...Windswept nimbus sentinels are gathering quickly darkening the noon day sky. Sunlight wanes, becoming veiled behind layers of opaque clouds. Like shrouds they hasten by. Gusting winds approac......Read the rest...

...Zealots, one by one, with steadfast passion serving God as Master in enthusiastic fashion - His broadcaster. Zebulon’s tribe pardoned for insurgence ......Read the rest...