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Seafarers Poems - Poems about Seafarers

Seafarers Poems - Examples of all types of poems about seafarers 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 seafarers.
Premium Member lighthouses
...lighthouses light seen between the oceans seafarers guidance......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, light,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Hope my final sigh is Relief
... Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally, my blood began to coagulate; I am initially concerned over p......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, analogy, body, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waterfall Chandeliers
... Listen to the ticking hands of twilight, close your eyes, while I take your thoughts to an ivory reverie of flickering fantasies… there I’m cruising above an island of mystery ......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Erik the Red: Anacreontic Verse
...HEED, my words for at its end his name will be future seafarers guide like that of a star HAIL, the winds they come from the north and just yon, a star that none need attend and in ......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, analogy, appreciation, courage, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Albatross
...A bird with a shadow as big as a bus Archaic the sailors that in him will trust Always at sea coming in from the stern Arrogant seafarers will need to learn Ancient beliefs all have basis......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, bird,
Form: Pleiades



When the Pilot Arrives
...the pilot arrives When the world was big, and my ship left Trinidad just as the sun set over the blue Caribbean and women, at the dockside waved goodbye forever, or perhaps not, if the ship retu......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, 11th grade, absence, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Urban Sailor
...A nice Freudian Quote: " We are imprisoners in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean." --------------------------------------------------------------------------......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, boat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature
...Nature is the first word that I recall, As I gaze upon the bay, tall trees in view, Deer and fawn wandering in my neighborhood small, Yearning to embrace them, capture a selfie or two. Nature i......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Seafarers Paradise
...seafarers’ paradise seven men drowned when a ship sank under gigantic waves seven weeks later they appeared on the Island of Saragossa where singing shanty is forbidden but seaweed is ser......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, allusion, best friend, books,
Form: Blank verse
Three Lined Poetry a Life
...A life in tree-lined poetry Once I was a cook on the high seas and worked long days seven days a week; Eater and Christmas meant more work baking cakes and baking bread. It was not only tirin......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, blessing, history, humanity, humor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wave of Skepticism
...What are we, if not seafarers? Writing words and aspirations to escape, Kraken's grasp of deep dark seas. Of turbulent brains during the storm. A wave of skepticism, as if love was ma......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, analogy, sea,
Form: Free verse
Nerida's Beach Tribute
...Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge Watchtower for Diminutive Town message Warns cliff climbers must heed heirachy rule ......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, beauty, change, cinderella, dark,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Jolly Fisherman
...One day, a jolly fisherman called Dave, While sailing was shipwrecked, by a huge wave. Still gasping for air, Dave only could stare, At a gorgeous mermaid, with long blonde hair. ......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, fishing, myth, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Getting the Job Done
...“Necessity is the mother of invention,” Making the case for improvisation, Seafarers would say, “jerry-rigging,” Results can often create a sensation. Using what’s at hand to get a job done Some......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, jobs, success,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Tides of War
...O’ mighty ship of tides, great boundless sea upon whom brave souls all caution cast her, deep eternal springs of mortality where Poseidon rules as lord and master. See the battery smoke, ......Read the rest...
Categories: seafarers, sea,
Form: Sonnet

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