Masted Poems - Poems about Masted

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...

Surreality of 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 ...

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...

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...

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

...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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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