Sailing Sea Poems

Written: May 11, 2025, for contest by Joseph May

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A...

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Protruding pole in the middle
The top look like a keel that light
During the night in the midst of the bay
Your like a swan in the...

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The camel, when drinking of tea,
Takes sugar proportionately.
For each of its humps
It drops twenty lumps;
But more, if it’s sailing by sea.
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She wore necklaces of coral,
strings of pearls embracing her body,
glinting back at the broken sunlight
scattered across the sea floor. 
Her glassy eyes gazed up,
somewhat worried,...

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I spotted an object from afar it was drifting towards the east
And the ocean current was flowing towards me and I could feel the pull...

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And late at hour, by rippling roar
Of waters lapping 'neath the tor,
A figure bathed in lunar light
Who smiled and turned upon my sight.
And beating wings...

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As a deaf person who hears with heart
I view sea sounds with emerald eyes
The crashing waves seem to charge
And sea gulls wings animate their cries

I...

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Upon the calm sea
there's serenity
Peace resides in me
Troubles laid to rest
Comfort in my breast
In a happy mood
I show gratitude
for this solitude

A boat to charter
o'er tranquil...

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My Father's Dream

A wide and vast horizon beckons me to enter there

where oceans echo ancestral voices and gulls paint images in the air.

The Saxons and...

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We journeyed then as whim behooved,
Our lives were eddies, wind and play;
Great hearts were we, so far removed
Whence any mortal thought might stray.
And sunlight streamed...

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Our precious planet plundered and poisoned.    
We bite the hand that feeds us day on day      ...

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Wretched is the man, who has not seen the sea, of day
Who has not heard the seagulls cry above the waves,
Who did not walk long...

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I was sailing alone
in the stormy sea of life,
Sullen thoughts invaded my mind
Dark waves lashed my heart
Until you came aboard,
lost at sea, my soul found...

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Some say your words act as a balm

A fleet of sweet tidings

Sailing into a gray dawn.


With white sails riding

On the heels of a grand mast

That...

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