Mizzen Poems - Poems about Mizzen

Bounty of the Sea

...'Twas dawn and all the sky blazed red.
The tell-tales snapped like waving flags.
The keening wind was full of dread;
all surplus sails were stowed in bags.
 
Though somewhere on the restless mai...

Slow Boat To China

...I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.

So, I took a long walk off...

Run a Windward Spray

...Chase the breakers out of the harbour
before the customs boat appears.
Strike the sails and tack to larboard 
then comes the old familiar fear.
Will they run us, or will they gun us?
Damn these ...

You Do It To Me

...You Do It to Me
By M. Griswold
04142020

Fiddle with me, oh lovely tender.
Fondle me so gently to render.

Touch me where I desire to be risen.
Tempt me so to heighten my mizzen.

Tease me ...

Tossed On the Tide - a Rattling Rhyme

...On an azure expanse without prospect or sail
        the debris of my ship rent asunder from gale
            as I float, the last salt to endeavor my breath
    my mates sent to Davey Jone's ...

God's Sparkle

...GOD’S     SPARKLE



When you turn your boat’s bow
To the morning sun
And the mizzen now is shaded
By yellow sails
Your face is to the rising tide
And into the breeze
Scattering the churned...

whirlpool -

...
Abaft the beam the aberration spun
Below the turbid surface like a pearl
Commanding all attentions, overrun

Dissolving as colloidal midst the swirl
Enci...

Only a Lighthouse

...How black the seas in a pounding storm!
   The lanterns were all blown out.
Only the lights within still burned
   For crewmen strong and stout.	

The flash from the clouds would scarce reveal
...

Voyager

...My youth was like a treasure map
in finest detail drawn,
experiences marker buoys,
of perils would they warn.
Islands of opportunity
places I dreamt of most
all littered with ambition
scattere...

Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale

...All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over.

There was a calmness but once before...

The Man O'War HMS Arcturus

...The Man O'War HMS Arcturus dominated the billowin' main!
Foes were fearful of closin' battle with 'er should they ever deign!
What a magnificent and imposin' sight was she with 'er riggin' full o's...

Spider's Rigging

...Spider’s Rigging
“I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind
on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed
anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the...

A Pirates Life For Me- For Contest

...Here we are in 1650, which is ten minutes to five
swing the wheel to the West, which is left,
put your sun cream away, man the mizzen and the stays
as we set off for some murder and some theft.

...

Canto Xxi Hell Translation

...So bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to se...

Ghost Ship

...They said she sails forever the seas off Cape Horn:
See her and wish to God you never was born. 
Laugh if you wish but  there’s  countless bones  
And hulls been sent to the locker of  Davy Jones.

‘...

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