Seafarers Poems - Poems about Seafarers

It's Going Down, Real Easy

...
I cannot tell you when it first began.
Long before I broke away — before I ran.
A newborn flame with a radiant glow,
In a sea of bright stars that blaze and flow.

Going down easy — like river...

The Timeball

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The Timeball
sits atop of a tower
at Point Gellibrand -  a quaint
relic of the past when,
well over a century ago,
ships at anchor in the Bay
would set their chronometers 
as the ball desc...

Nebulous Horizon

...So, it's been said that everything looks better in the morning light, but when sun's warm rays cannot break through the shrouded zenith what hope is there for life?

What can be observed in ...

In Stars Above

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Ode to the Rain

...You come down 
And strengthen the feeble.  
You pour down 
And awaken the dying.  

The frail await your arrival.  
Your departure saddens the blooming fields.  
There’s a rebirth at your comi...

THE GOAL

...It is the ACT in the goal set that seals the deal
Nonetheless, many a goal are broadcasted abroad
In sheer exhilarations that fades like dusk
And at the mercy of drifting time left rot
A perfect ...

morning poem

...Morning poem

This morning, sky and sea had the color shiny grey and I could see forever and saw a man and his son on the deck of big ship, eating prunes because it was good for digesting heavy foo...

Leviathan

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 On bowride below gentle titans peep
   ghost ships of the Pacific hunt and chase -
 great barnacled seafarers of the deep
   beneath the waves its clear blue waters grace.
 Where yon an ol...

Whispers Skyline

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Written: May 20, 2024

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Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway
sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell 
splendid summer shoreli...

lighthouses

...lighthouses light 
seen between the oceans 
seafarers guidance...

Hope my final sigh is Relief

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Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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Finally, my blood began to coagulate;
I am initially concerned over p...

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
...

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 ...

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...

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...

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