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Expedition

..."Life is an expedition to unknown territories. Adverse winds may veer round and the calm may be disrupted any time, but don't lose hope and pull on" ~ By Poet

Leaving the sheltered con...

Categories: riggings, confusion, fear, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse

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 ...

Categories: riggings, adventure, appreciation, lost, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

In Flagrante Delicto

...[starboard port]

the ocean—an onyx plate predawn—
somnambulant ships preen with a swag of
warning lights

massive hulls: cargo ships, flotillas, tankers,
passenger liners loll; red lights bus...

Categories: riggings, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Prize

...She has been gaining on us

Our hold heavy

With burdensome loot

Our riggings pock-marked

From the shot of exchanges

And the stress of this South Sea.

Duties never change

Sometimes...

Categories: riggings, christian, ocean, sea,
Form: Ballad

Tempest

...I fail before the broken mast
riggings rope the hangman's noose
untethered rudder I to piteous winds
in the wreckage trench-ed waves efface 

A prayer to this salted scathing howl
to none but t...

Categories: riggings, sea, storm,
Form: Free verse

Lost At Sea

...The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought the lee
With the slams and the pitching the ship could be wrac...

Categories: riggings, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse

Girl Rising

... She  felt the world  turned upside down in apace,
When he left her suddenly with his sad goodbyes in her last embrace;
She was so weak to endure the pain of losing him,
She thought, her l...

Categories: riggings, loss, strength,
Form: Narrative

Loaf's Salutation

...Barchans go on droughting in Yagyakarta sods
outpaced here I throw a soliton in gaze-mirage

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Here we stand on this, the Lee of 
                                       Dual Sandhorns {    and th...

Categories: riggings, adventure, art, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Gone

...Who will set the mainsail and chart the course?
Now that the ship’s captain has gone away?
Calm the crew when the sea rages with force?
Now who will stand the helm day after day?

His schooner swings...

Categories: riggings, loss,
Form: Free verse

Midnights Beautiful Girl

...SUMMER NIGHTS QUIET BROKEN BY THE SOUNDS OF VOICES
SOFT WHISPERS BREATHED BETWEEN LOVERS
WAVES LAPPING AT THE SIDES OF BOATS THE WIND WHISTELING IN THE RIGGINGS
I CAN ALMOST FEEL HER NOW


THE ...

Categories: riggings, angst
Form: I do not know?

Home Grown Pirates

...Boxed in
and filled with sand
like a dry ocean
the towering
creosote soaked pillions
take the form 
of an old shipwreck
with riggings, planks
and a captain's wheel.
Paid by the commons
for ...

Categories: riggings, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse