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New Moorings

...Moorings anew are easy as thought,
Vessels tethered, fixed as weather,
By an anchor, a person, or an idea,
Sure to shore up evidence of defense, of itself.

With every wave, memory fades soft as...

Categories: sailers, age, boat, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse

The Rose and Crown

...The year was 1832 when she slipped out the pub back door 
It was stormy and cold as she walked out far across the English Moor 
She stood at the edge of a craggy cliff as waves slammed rocks below ...

Categories: sailers, death, emotions, fear, health,
Form: Rhyme

It Has Always Been Like This

...It Has Always Been Like This

It has always been like this, since the very first slap.
We will go north this morning, then go south in the evening,
Then we will step this way, and then that way, ...

Categories: sailers, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

All Quiet In the Evening Cove

....

"The storms are raging on the rollin' sea,
and on the highway of regret."*

All quiet in the evening cove,
ship rests against a red-orange canopy,
a canvas of peaceful existence is seen,
a...

Categories: sailers, sea,
Form: Rhyme

21st Century, Legendary Alternative Entrepreneur

...I LOVE TO HANG OUT IN THE ISLANDS SAILING WHERE EVER IT'S HOT
CAPTAIN AND CREW ON MY SCHOONER GOTTA MAINTAIN MY YACHT
I HAVE SOME BOAT NYMPHS, BLONDES WHO CAN PLAY
HANGING OUT TOPLESS ON MY DECK A...

Categories: sailers, adventure, boat, fantasy, history,
Form: Lyric

Sailers Trust

...CAST YOUR NET UPON THE RIVER
MIGHT YOUR LABORS BE WON
THE NETS ARE DRIED AND TORN
OH TO THE MERCIES OF YOUR
DAUGHTERS AND SONS
PUT YOUR ORES IN RIVER
MIGHT THEY BREAK WHEN
YOU ARE CALLED TO SH...

Categories: sailers, betrayal, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Ballad

Haiku: Traditional 11

...Still here by lake shore
Seagulls knife air, sailers tack, 
No traffic lights flash

Brian Johnston
October 3, 2015

Variation on Haiku: Traditional 11

Still here by lake shore
Gulls knife...

Categories: sailers, life,
Form: Haiku

Dock of the Bay

...The sea still wears her dangerous face,
her width cut arrow straight at the horizon
ragged at the other end, lace to scissors.
The wind is her hound, crazed with
the departure of wind that pushed no ...

Categories: sailers, introspection,
Form: Ballad

Paris Gulls

...The scent of oceans, a certain coolness
of wind over water wanders these city streets
where oleander blooms wickedly 
in the ruby assignation of the heart.
An occosional grayed gull, bonded to the Se...

Categories: sailers, memory, sea, sea,
Form: Ballad

Rich Dock Sailers

...(hello! I'z bee'z day old Cap-pin Mike! this is my first poem I posted on heres!
I'z writes poem'z about my life on day ocean. just bee'z keepin in yaz head dat 
I'z very dis-sleck-sick and very ve...

Categories: sailers, adventure, funny, day, day,
Form: Rhyme