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Masted Poems - Poems about Masted

Premium Member And There were Three
...Three faceless Misses amble amidst vagarious March rains under parasols / veiled in the anonymity of death/burial Three / shifting between tangible lives breathless bellies barely acclimat......

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Categories: masted, art, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Girlish Dreams
...The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore she adores the breeze adorned with gems emeralds fly fr......

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Categories: masted, dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Fighting Temeraire
...The Fighting Temeraire I lead this Queen to a guillotine She follows me with dignity and grace all English oak and 98 guns. I am an unsuitable escort for my Lady, my low born coarseness, the eff......

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Categories: masted, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Oh To Be In Trinidad
... Oh, to be in Trinidad when the hot scented currents flow, from East Dry River to Nariva samaan and silk cotton tree grow. Where whisperin’ palms reach across island reef and coconut......

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Categories: masted, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Rhone
... A UK Royal Mail Ship was RMS Rhone A sail-steamer and a two-masted brig, she shone Rhone had an iron hull and was 310 feet long Her compound steam engine made her fast and quite strong ......

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Categories: masted, appreciation, history,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Count It With Numbers - Gulf of Guinea, September, 1839
...Dropped anchor off the Fever Coast ‘board a rake-masted schooner Spooked by Ahab’s ghost. Lamps glowered through the yawning blanks Casting bone-twisted shadows Over teakwood planks. Salt bi......

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Categories: masted, slavery,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Sea Waves the Waters-
...How happy is the masted ship! Does the ship in cold waters make you shiver? does it? A sea torrent, however hard it tries, Will always be sustainable. Does the sea waves make you shiver? does......

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Categories: masted, adventure, analogy, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Secret Tattoos
...secret tattoos a three-masted schooner tattoo on his bare chest my father tosses us each high into the air and we squeal with delight make it sail for us. he rub......

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Categories: masted, grief, ocean, war,
Form: Free verse
Black, Blue's Dream of Knowing
...Black, Blue’s dream of knowing Today, eyes heavenward, an unclouded blue unto eternity. Look up. Swim this fathomless sea far as perspective can carry. Leave behind L.A. Leave used shores......

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Categories: masted, dream, hope, love, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Alive Voicelessly Praises
...Heavens right here It's all right here in your heart Spirit feeling, moving, breathing right here in your chest and it's all right here in you Those things you find hard are easy and it's all ......

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Categories: masted, blessing, devotion,
Form: Light Verse
Ketch
...Ketch Keel's deep in water and Kelp off the bow appears Kembed as I " keep her luff". Knighthead to the South, with Knots at fifteen, on the King plank I stand...O' this Ketch is so mighty ......

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Categories: masted, boat, sea,
Form: Verse
Neptune's Realm
...Masted castles crown the mountains Hidden by the brackish sea, Where a string of boiling fountains Dot the ever-spreading lea. Leafless forests of the deep, Visited by swimming birds......

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Categories: masted, allusion, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enchanted Voyage
...Enchanted Voyage Aboard the Magnolia paddle steamboat Bound down the Mississippi River Carrying its precious cargo Daring anyone for a challenge on her beauty and speed Enchantment captivates......

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Categories: masted, river, voyage,
Form: Abecedarian
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two
...Stilled again across the canals broadening Girth; Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth, Reflecting the glints that gleefully Twist and dance in the h......

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Categories: masted, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Brandon
...Today I learned, once more, the lesson of loss. Today I learned of a brother gone. Tonight I pay my respects, in what words I can muster; forever he is one of us. I didn’t know him for all too ......

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Categories: masted, death, death of a
Form: Free verse

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