Riggings Poems - Poems about Riggings

..."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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...[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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...Barchans go on droughting in Yagyakarta sods outpaced here I throw a soliton in gaze-mirage * Here we stand on this, the Lee of Dual Sandhorns { and th......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...