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Sailors Poems - Poems about Sailors

Sailors Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sailors to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for sailors.
Premium Member The Third Wind
...1st wind, childhood 2nd wind, jobs, career 3rd wind, elder life. ___I___ Many do so wonder... After exhausting what there is in business Politics, l......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member REMNANTS-Divine Magnetism Contest
..."The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff." Carl Sagan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We’re all stardust, remnants of Divine Magnetism and celestial fi......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, inspiration, stars,
Form: Free verse
G And T Blues
...She sits there in seclusion Recalling her glory days Before internet and SATNAV So changed the Mariners ways. Sat on her eponymous rock All the year long She’d lure poor sailors with A temp......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, adventure, fun, humor, myth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ship of Fools
...On a ship of fools without direction, Along a circuitous trajection, Sailors from every land and nation Drift not by chart, but hallucination, And their lofty voices, at once speaking ......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, allegory, environment, humanity, political,
Form: Rhyme
Strummaz Motiff
...The green leafed tree in the harbor. There the freights are advanced. Sailors with quality tools, while diners feast and play chess. The edge Of the merchants dine hall has a Blindspot where tu......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, boat, celebration, celebrity, dance,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Life Living Travels
...Through the many days Up and down marking each their hours So do minds sail their curious course. With each weighed anchor leaving swirling trails Showing the world what the bottom had, then to......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, adventure, dream, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member al called - haul
...sitting with a rum i take a pen and... rhy-me words anchor duty sailors... all call - "haul" at christmas a church be the... all "call" hall a tow truck driver starts driving on hearing -......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, addiction, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hummocks of Glimmering Sand
...The sun was newly risen above the Earth His golden smile warmed amber desert sands The grand landscape resembled barren lands as sepia grains were slathered in rippling waves That's what ......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easter Rising
... lighthouses joy peace butterflies bloom with soul clouds sailors sing with seas Easter Sunday March 31st 2024 Dedicated to my parents Claire Gail Cooke July 19th - 1943 to Ma......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, butterfly, christian, dedication, easter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Voyage
...“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” By Rumi A voyage from known to unknown… From familiar to unfam......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
...She hung the lanterns every night A softly pungent glowing light In hopes amid the darkened cliffs To warn the sailors of the gut That churned amid the shifting tides Some sailors claim an ang......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, beauty, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Surviving in the Post-Truth World
...In the realm of post-truth and misinformation, We find ourselves adrift on a turbulent sea, Deceit's waves rise, falsehoods obscure the sun, Facts, like elusive phantoms, fade from view. This t......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, betrayal, psychological, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Early Spring
...In the early spring, the red sun rises A warning to sailors of storms on the horizon Cold mornings greet us with a shiver But warm afternoons embrace us with a kiss Different h......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Siren's Song
...I sped around a painted ship the deck, all deck where she, the song that lured me there does captivate again but as she sang she voiced a sea the mouth, all mouth cried crew that ran and......Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, dark, death, fate, horror,
Form: Free verse
Goethe and Schiller translations
...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........Read the rest...
Categories: sailors, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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