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Sea Captain Poems - Poems about Sea Captain


Premium Member The Old Sea Captain
It was not a dark and stormy night and the captain was not on the deck of his ship. He was at the old Spanish Inn at a table by himself. I asked him what he was eating. He said, "Tuna on rye, coleslaw and a mug of beer." He was furiously writing something on a paper napkin. "When it's...

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Categories: sea captain, sea, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Old Sea Captain
Night and day night n day now eating his bread and slops a quiet demented dreaming dreams of sea and soft skies But how big the seas of thought run still in the captain's sleep a mediterranean ships cabin of sleep rocked to the sea beat in his ears Over what blue whaled waves does he sail in a...

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Categories: sea captain, imagination,
Form: Free verse



The Old Sea Captain
In a Mediterranean blue cabin of sleep rocked to the sea beat in his ears what big seas of dreams run in the Captain's sleep over what blue whaled waves does he sail in a rainbow hail of flying-fishes he can see the Atlantic from his bed where he now lies night and day night and day eating...

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Categories: sea captain, nostalgia, sea, blue, day,
Form: Free verse
I'M a Sea Captain, Don'T Need a Microphone
I'm a sea captain! Don't need a microphone ! I watched you take a back spin With the skills I've honed You pre picked your pansy pearl Thought I didn't know it? You presented your gargantuan giggly girl But didn't expect the Floating Poet To the fart scoundrel of snoot port Who saw the need was dire Had the art counsel of Beaufort Promise 2nd and...

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Categories: sea captain, adventurewords, nice, me, nice,
Form: ABC
The Sea Captain
Fall from Grace. From sun tanned hero to zero the unthinkable happen, the captain on a 14 story liner hit a rock. Her captain lost his marbles, didn’t know what to do next, shell chocked his world and dreams had come to an abrupt end. What followed show us a man not in charge of...

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Categories: sea captain, angst, fear, recovery from...,
Form: Blank verse




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