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Sails Poems - Poems about Sails

My Boat Sails Off on a Lovely Day
My boat sails off on a lovely day, the future unknown as it drifts with the tide. A storm rises, ferocious and unrelenting, dragging me to the bottom of the sea. I feel the weight of the water, the finality of sinking— I believe I will never rise. Out of nowhere, a brush appears, a great, shimmering stroke of light. I grab it, and...

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Categories: sails, for her, hope, how
Form: Free verse
Change Sails
Wind is uncontrolled I reach my objective by Adjusting my sails....

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Categories: sails, change, life, passion,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Unfurl Your Sails
Each fragile dandelion Orb of feathered, tiptoed seeds Invite Curiosity's breath to loft your prosperous needs Anchor away La Pinta, La Niña, cast off Santa Maria Heave hoe your Astrolabe Star ward to map Nirvana Sail well past your daunting precipice in daring abandon The Perils of Earth's plate, let emptier thoughts imagine Be bold. Lift in weightless step. ...

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Categories: sails, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Sails at The Top
He sets up His mast upon His raft. He sailed the tops and groves of the trees in granting There He goes through the forest, soaring His craft He provides energy to the wild as the swift wind passes. The freshness of the timbers climbing, When they flourish where they're standing The aroma of wood is the best for understanding That...

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Categories: sails, god, imagery, inspirational, nature,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member wind in one's sails
the going gets tough no pain no gain sink or swim burn the midnight oil soldier on stick to your guns bite the bullet come hell or high water go the extra mile the going gets tough stand your ground dig in your heels up and at ’em where there’s a will, there’s a way on the ball hang in there...

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Categories: sails, analogy, metaphor, simile,
Form: Senryu



sails in the harbor
When you see a white sail in the harbor of Brest, A sail under a burning sun, It’s a nagging sail, She has not the tranquility of a sail on the Nile, Her mind is not at peace, her conscience torments her, This sail flees life; it does not enjoy life, So are most of the things we like In This...

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Categories: sails, allegory, image, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flitting Sails
Yellow Swallowtail Frail wings, spots of cyan blue Flew on flitting sails....

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Categories: sails, analogy, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Liberty Sails
harboring ‘midst statue’s torch liberty sails in July flamboyant holiday stars fireworks holiday sail boats in new york harbor free to celebrate...

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Categories: sails, america, imagery, independence day,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member She Sails
There she is in all her glory Her ship never sailed A coat of paint and name change She prevails ….....

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Categories: sails, boat, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sails
"Sails" Running along the cliff edge like dirt music racing sharks in the shallows he wrote his messages on walls tall ships breezing in the sales torn pages pinned to the flip side walking the floors of Freedom recording notes moving his fingers along the day like he’s playing the keys of a piano the words and music of his life flying swiftly away like blackbirds in his...

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Categories: sails, freedom, journey, life,
Form: Narrative
Door 2 Door Sails
An housewife in need of a poke Was charmed by a sweet-talking bloke He gave her what-for Then dashed out the door Because he mis-spoke and he's broke...

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Categories: sails, culture,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Captain Sails Atop the Storm
Like sitting upon a sail at the storm’s peak, riding its mastery, and black and blue artistry. Underneath the vessel’s feet, it’s troubled us to flip us end to end, to break its back. Pale is the moon under many a gossamer sheet of the criminal-clouds. The sun likewise quivers, a sickly-green hue, as the seaweed, underneath the careening boat, moves either...

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Categories: sails, adventure, storm,
Form: Narrative
Sail On
I watched the beautiful sky As it seems to meet With the water While I sailed across The ocean blue with breeze That flows with the wind...

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Categories: sails, blue, boat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stopping By
hwy 93 glides up into the misty grey where billowing black shifting clouds shroud the moon like pirate sails wheels and metal destined for what is forever slipping away yet drawing nigh so gentle and so kind stopping by the horizon on a summer's eve "because it could not stop for me" * (if you read poetry) sage hills roll on long after I'm gone From "Stopping by the Woods on...

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Categories: sails, death, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Open the Sails
I learnt to let my arms float in the air And let the rush flow with the wind Cause I was so focused on being great Putting pressure on myself that I was close to breaking So when I stretch my hands out I let go of all the tensions in me And learn to go with the flow And...

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Categories: sails, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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