I sail
in my dream world
on waters glassed
towards my own true north
the wind fills billowing sails
as birds glide
Categories:
sailboat, dream,
Form: Verse
Sailboat
sailor
hurled by wild winds
on the deep sea
in awe calls for relief
from men and the heaven,
but in vain.
Categories:
sailboat, heaven, men, sea, wind,
Form: Verse
Contest Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
"VISIONS OF A VIGNETTE 2"*
6/21/2025
Sailboat
Under
the white seagulls,
yacht's passing wing
off the sky, off deep end —
sea moves me lagging these feet
in water
Categories:
sailboat, angst, boat, deep, introspection,
Form: Verse
sailboat,
dear conveyance
of my dimmed dreams,
glide freely 'neith the sun
I'll watch as you sail away
with my heart
Categories:
sailboat, dream, freedom, ocean,
Form: Verse
Sailboat
sails set
starboard sheets taut
west winds ten knots
wheel steady in my hand
not a cloud in the blue sky
fresh salt air
Categories:
sailboat, sea,
Form: Verse
A gold sailboat for souls
Each star is marked
The celestial embodiment
Of hazel hope floating
Empowered by heavenly heart
Silvery universal art
Illuminating onyx sky so dark
Read by those inclined to see
More than most humanly possible
A joyful journey to destination
Burning brightly in anticipation of
Of the next destination
Categories:
sailboat, appreciation, art, heart, poetry,
Form: Free verse
hidden garage find
torn mast and peeling paint share
memories of past
Categories:
sailboat, memory,
Form: Haiku
Written 27 July 2023
In the Midst of the Deep Sea
Lost was I in the midst of the deep sea
On a meek and modest sailboat;
I prayed to the Lord with a sincere plea
To guide me reach the land hassles-free
On the bank of a sheltered lee,
Allowing the sailboat to float.
Lost was I in the midst of the deep sea
On a meek and modest sailboat.
Categories:
sailboat, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form: Triolet
Inspired by the Painting of Vincent Van Gogh
"Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes"
sky stunning sapphire, sand spectacular amber, sail-boats snoozing snug...
Categories:
sailboat, sea,
Form: Monoku
Wind is blowing pretty hard.
See why the hand holds
Will lift you and slam you. Sometimes the boat leaves the water completely.
Your raceing around the deck trying not to be swept overboard.
You are so soaked, wind chilling you to the bone.
Half filled with fear
Yet the grin says I'm having the time of my life
Make a mistake your dead
I have no care about dead. Doesn't matter to me.
I'm alive. Nature slamming me every way
Waves that lean the boat to where you swear the boats mast is almost touching the water each rock of a wave
What's crazy I can't swim a lick .
Don't care. Better my body on the ocean floor than ashes sitting forever on someone's shelf
You can sit in a couch feeling sad thinking life has past you by .
Waste away in sorrow
No thoughts on tomorrow
Or get yourself up go out and bring life to you
Like its said you live only once.
You live every day.
you die only once
Your choice. Make the most out of what short time we get, or you waste away wishing.
Yeah. Only you can make this choice
Categories:
sailboat, slam,
Form: Free verse
* I
see
waves
rolling in
interrupting
the horizon line
the winds picking up
my sails with sky combine
like a comet in the vastness
of space I am a speck in the sea
drifting endlessly, as humble as I
could ever imagine to be, to know
I may disappear in a moment is as
freeing as it is chilling, fleeing land
with water spilling onto my feet. will
it
be
my last voyage or the first of many a quest. seeing
mother nature at her best. An overwhelming of
serenity. Here I am anyone, without a need
for identity, as my foundation shifts
swiftly, I sail away. Happily adrift
Categories:
sailboat, nature,
Form: Concrete
Hold me.
My heart's adrift.
Now hard aground, torn sails.
Can we just once sail WITH the tide?
Again?
Categories:
sailboat, anger, sad love, sea,
Form: Cinquain
As August day darkens with sunset
There are always those
Who cannot let go of the summer
The sail of the boat on Torch Lake
First a yellow flame
To the match of last sunray
Now
With the hills extinguishing last light
Sail becomes ash gray of a hard rain
Dissolving to black night
No guiding lights
To save it from the innocent
A pirate ship of skull and bones
Held captive to the noose
Of the windless
The cannon of universe
Finishes it
Bombards the lake with falling stars.
Categories:
sailboat, august, boat, change, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Silently the wind slips into the night
Settling down beneath a silver moon
Shimmering across still waters,
Slowly creeping across somber sky
So stealthily no one sees the storm
Subtly slipping onto the farthest rim
Sailors’ warning sometimes an epitaph
Sunrise will see the sails must be trim
Suddenly, scurrying below to perform,
Sickly seamen who are wont to die
Still are called to stand their quarters
Simply to do their duty, none too soon,
Stretching sinews with all their might.
written August 4, 2021
[an experimental poem using alliteration
and reverse rhyming. The center of the
poem is the line ending in "epitaph."
Thereafter the rhymes are reversed.]
Categories:
sailboat, anxiety, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
A sailboat stranded on the beach…we’d never seen her there before.
She was blown off of her moorings and came to rest upon this shore.
As I saw her stranded on the beach I admit to feeling chagrinned
thinking how a sailboat is truly at the mercy of the wind.
As people gathered round her…as people are won’t to do
I smiled thinking about the life she’s lived as she’s sailed the ocean blue.
And I secretly wished she was happy that she had a thousand adventures before
the winds of fate decided to place her upon this shore…
And then I thought how we are all like sailboats trying to steer our courses straight
And how often our direction is influenced and sometimes determined
by the winds of fate.
And if we’re lucky those winds of fate have taken us
when our sailing days are over and we, too, come to rest upon the shore
to places that we never knew and could only dream about before.
And when people gather round to say goodbye to us…
as people are wont to do
may they smile remembering how we smiled
as we sailed the ocean blue.
Categories:
sailboat, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
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