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Sextant Poems - Poems about Sextant

Ethereal imagery
...Warm my heart touch the sky Sail beneath these stars by and by Winds carry my spirit see Shaped clouded memory Sail uncharted sextant Steer from journey’s door Upon a whispering memorial On......

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Categories: sextant, appreciation, beautiful, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Heart Matters
... some fill your heart with pure light and uplift it some pack it with stone and cement and sink it some forget it all together and happily shrink it some bat it like a plaything and happily crack......

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Categories: sextant, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shekinah Crown Evolutions
...Within the wicked wash a shekinah crown of thorns is tossed to you offered to you Hold on to it- titanium tight faith demands a blood palm sacrifice Keep sextant eyes on the pale horse ho......

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Categories: sextant, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pivoting toward the light
... When things are turning dark, try pivoting toward the light. Nothing grandiose-no great secrets revealed Just a simple pivot of the wayward mind until the shine comes back into view. Like ......

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Categories: sextant, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ANOTHER RARE AND WONDERFUL DAY
... Yesterday I awoke excited…filled with anticipation…knowing the day was going to be fun because, in Florida, I was going to witness a partial eclipse of the sun. I was working in the bookstore d......

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Categories: sextant, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seafairers And Their Sailing Boats
...We sail through life upon stormy waters And sometimes calm We need to keep stable To survive and keep afloat Sometimes we use a compass and sextant To navigate steering in the right direction E......

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Categories: sextant, encouraging, sea,
Form: Free verse
Children's Poem VIII
...Children's Poems VII These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. Sailing to My Grandfather, for Georg......

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Categories: sextant, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Map-Maker
...With compass and sextant, paper and ink, Bungaree, Nanbaree, Matthew and George and a cat and a crew were at sea. They went sailing and sailing, around and around in Eighteen Hundred and Three. ......

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Categories: sextant, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe
...**Trigger Warning** "I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe" I knew Anne. you’d think with a name like hers she’d be able to find her way out of unchartered water......

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Categories: sextant, dark, love, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Straight On
...“To die … will be an awfully big adventure.” - J.M. Barrie ~ grown gray, had I, with stiffened bones the pains and aches that old age owns yet I could still dredge up......

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Categories: sextant, adventure, analogy, death, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: sextant, beauty, change, cinderella, dark,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Lorelei Blues
...she was a sassy little mermaid with only one ardent wish to wreak havoc on mankind for introducing chips to fish she’d sit upon that lorelei rock and keep her constant check and in the cold wea......

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Categories: sextant, adventure, boat, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lessers
...Sometime between birth and death. Smiles soften like pastels in a mountain mist. Truths harden like unearthed diamonds. Social circles expand and contract with little warning. When loves wither a......

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Categories: sextant, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ila
...I speak to you with words of Forever, and Always; call to you, using splashes and dashes of light, pulsing beyond any common obscurity...but there is no code to my caring – beaming slip-less s......

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Categories: sextant, birthday, feelings, heart, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vermin of a Lesser Sextant
...It's a grand old boat-still quite reliable. But from the darkness below. A crimson breasted leviathan is clawing holes. Deep into its starry soul. She's quickly listing. Vermin gnawing away at t......

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Categories: sextant, boat,
Form: Free verse

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