Short Jolly Roger Poems

Hoist
the Jolly Roger
atop the mainsail
we're heading
for Bermuda
with the wind
on our tail....

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His name was Jolly Roger.
Our friendly ice-cream man.
Often licked but never beaten, 
was the slogan on his van....

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Gulls	
Cry brings
Ghost Rider
Pirates shimmer
Jolly Roger flies
Mist unfurls sails
Empty decks
Forever
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SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And hoist up with a good Jolly Roger...

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Captain Tabby Longtail stands
Like Ahab at the helm,
His Jolly Roger flying high
Above his salty realm.
He’ll keelhaul your scurvy carcass
If you give him any bull,
And he’ll make you walk the plank, mate,
If his food dish isn’t full.
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aboard the ship named Jolly Roger
she
wears the black Skull and Bones Flag
and
it 
waves in the salty air
where 
the 
pirates celebrate
in all the captured booty
and
flashed
their 
whiskey smiles and yellow bloodshot eyes
while
the 
pirates shouted out
the 
sun taste like sweet bottles of rum...

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The bubble you burst is my pride of command
The trouble you cursed by the chide of my band
The fool that is me is no true folly dodger
Perhaps what you see is a blue Jolly Roger

Taken from "Thru Maritime Miles 7-A Pirates Plea"
Prepared for the "Rithimus Divisa 5 Poetry Contest" 
Submitted on August 31,2020...

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For whom shall I vote?
There are too many voices
saying come here, don't go there.
If I'm not cold I'm at least lukewarm
to political drones throwing stones;
the demented or the dictator? 

I might look elsewhere.

If I vote for the Prohibition Party 
will I have to give up my vices? 
Perhaps I'll just roll the dices~
if they land on thirteen or the old Jolly Roger,
maybe I'll become the three thousand and first 
member of the primed Pirate Party!


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