Old Salt Poems - Poems about Old Salt

In the corner of a pub There sits an old sea dog He tells the same old stories His mind is full of fog “Ahoy, me hearties! Pass the rum And I’ll spin you a yarn of old About the time I was a pirate A tale I’ve rarely told” “I’ve sailed the ocean blue I’ve had a bounty on me head Sailing under the...

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The sea plays tricks you see The old salt said looking straight at me For the sun and waves look different And sometimes they appear heaven sent He was leaning on the pier that day Sucking back his pipe in the usual way We were sailing in the roaring forties winds And thinking that we would have the luck again But on the...

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I’ve seen the seaman’s life around, So, when I step on solid ground, Where I’ve forgot how life self goes, Who rules this world and how grass grows, I have a feeling of distortion Of everything to smallest portion, And breeze that blows humans’ faces Out to the...

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Once there was a man called Mike & Irk got his sweetheart “sweet tooth” pop rocks, Bon-bon, candy, lollipop, toffee Wonka laffy taffy cherry Bloody how could the “old salt” indulge in sweet-talk? Written for the Contest "Sweet or salty?" by my friend Poet.Andrea Dietrich...

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Forth he went upon the sea grizzled and tough as he could be. But when the old salt came to shore he'd look for Jenny Lynn some more. She was lost from him for years; he'd shed a bucket of bitter tears. Dreaming of the day they'd meet the old man had a heart so sweet. Someday he would find his daughter. Till then...

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Nimitz is still strong the "Old Salt" is getting old set to sail again...

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The Old Salt was a special man who came along in a time when he was needed most. A time that is now gone forever. When men believed and sacrificed, when hero’s walked the earth in mass. When patriotism was not just a word but, by what men lived and judged the worth of each, a man who lived a life...

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