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A Nautical Truth - Water Is Magnetic

This is for all those of an ocean-going mind who, for no apparent reason, are compelled down to the seas again.

Throughout history, water, in all its forms, has held an attraction to humanity. Whether it be wading 'neath a waterfall, paddling in the pool, walking by the weir, crossing a canal, riparian tendencies, such as

Categories: nautical, how i feel, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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

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

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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

Categories: nautical, boat, fantasy, humorous, sea,
Form: Monorhyme

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

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

Categories: nautical, allusion, metaphor,
Form: Limerick

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

Categories: nautical, analogy, devotion, journey, lost
Form: Quatrain

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

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

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

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

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

Categories: nautical, ocean, parody,
Form: Free verse

Nautical Grace

Through waters you move.
All else is dull when compared.
What beauty you hold.

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