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Nautical Poems - Poems about Nautical


Balefire
Balefire What glory is a lighthouse with no storm to weather? For there is no solace in harbouring a harpooned wanderer Truth be told, I am the jaded sea-torn sailor Yet they sing to me and call me the Balefire Doldrums Doldrums Dear doldrums you call….. In endless seas jetsam thoughts seek out the siren’s forever Despite smooth tides and the steady marauder Truth be...

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Categories: nautical, depression, emotions, grief, lost,
Form: Ballad
Mister Jones
If you're sitting comfortably and have locked your mobile 'phones, I'll tell you all a story about Indiana Jones I met him on a wooden bench whilst strolling through a park He was mumbling incoherently about some missing ark At some point back in history, a loaded ark set sail The animals had disembarked according to his tale Instead, some coins...

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Categories: nautical, adventure, celebrity, fantasy, international,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ahoy - a Nautical Nightmare
[Written as a sort of sea shanty style thing-a-me-Bob. Tin Fish = Torpedo] When the tin fish hit me starboard I was thrown into the sea I sank down to the ocean bed for all eternity I met a man called Davy Jones who handed me a key I opened up his locker just to see what I might...

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Categories: nautical, boat, fantasy, humorous, sea,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Only the Parrots Saw
Tropical breezes waft across a sea of empyrean bliss as a lost ship, the The Golden Dragon, cast it’s indigo shadow upon turquoise waters. Parrots preening one another, were the welcoming party for weary travelers. whispering leaves on trees twisted with the winds of ages, graced the morning light upon the shore. Down Anchor and a shoreward visit to this seraphic isle, gave...

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Categories: nautical, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mosquito On the Nautical Chart
An experienced ship's commander uses AIs similar transponder knows what the map blur is don't sink ship for quiz not blur of mosquito...

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Categories: nautical, allusion, metaphor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Lost In a Nautical Twilight Pages of Time
Lost on a sailboat going nowhere but towards a dream I glide deeper in blue waters looking for the endless seam night has fallen softly all around me, I can only gleam here in my sailboat, standing spar to spar a pulpit realm Finding only calm I mesh as one with the dolphins in the sea...

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Categories: nautical, analogy, devotion, journey, lost
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Nautical Navy Soldier-
Mystic mystical seas Wayward soldier it's not yet over over yourself is just being gone over on the rising raging seas your voyages just begun Binding me and in raging seas high at nautical pace your journey's Journey course it is of course nautical lacrosse at the raging marsh a Nautical Navy soldier 2/5/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Categories: nautical, adventure, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
How Many Nautical Miles
A very wise but good natured mathematician once whispered to me some helpful words of advice when sailing the seven seas it takes 1,852 metres and 6,076 feet to find each nautical miles How she did it I found very shocking because I didn't even know the method she had used whether finding the circumference of the Earth surface or speed up time by...

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Categories: nautical, sea,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts On the Water
ghosts on the water Captains courageous Out hunting for whale Ghosts on the water Still under sail Whales are all gone now Time goes so fast Ghosts on the water Still a'fore the mast Yesterday beckons But no one can see The ghosts on the water Still sailing the sea Hunting for schools That no longer exist Ghosts on the water Sail on in the mist Captains courageous Out hunting for blue Souls lost...

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Categories: nautical, 10th grade,
Form: Lyric
Nom Noms Not Numbers Nor Nautical Nuns
A rather dashing and exquisitely designed purple weather balloon was racing against a dark grey sofa, a beach towel, a cotton bud and a statue of king Kong the eighth. Across the beaded sky joined by the sea eagles whose breakfast could always be located in a mountainside by the ocean. The barriers were to...

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Categories: nautical, aubade, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
Nautical
NAUTICAL a gale of tidal nautical waves nourish the shoal hand palming moist as wet sands drain lungs fill with the beauty of usage swallowing it in throat soaked spheres float above discreetly quietly nonentity upstarts avoid nautical aquanimity blind to sea blind to see clarity of mind © Kim van Breda—19 October 2015...

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Categories: nautical, ocean, parody,
Form: Free verse
Nautical Grace
Through waters you move. All else is dull when compared. What beauty you hold....

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Categories: nautical, animals, life, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku

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