Short Mariners Poems

foghorn's soulful moan
dense cover hides shallows' graves
mariners be warned...

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Structure of the night
Mariners pillar of light
Saving beam of life



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The billows roll free
Upon the South Sea.
An albatross sleeps on the wing.
The tide rushes in,
A song’s on the wind--
A sea chantey mariners sing....

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Candlestick Lighthouse high on hill
On coast near San Francisco still
Light saves lives with a bright strong will
Tallest of west coast sea towers
A beacon to stand ocean’s chill
Been guiding mariners from ill...

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bright beacon of hope
warning of treacherous shoals
guides mariners home

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 6 in Annalise Brigham's "What My Eyes See" Contest - Feb 2011...

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A shaft of light gleams,
Through the murky illusions:
Rocky coast divulged. 

A mariners guide,
Through the treacherous coastline:
A symbol of home. 



______________________
*In the Light of Haiku *

-Raul Moreno...

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In their sturdy ships the mariners
Were guided by the ancient stars.

Ensuring that man and beast may feed,
Earth nurtures each and every seed.

A sea so placid safe and warm
Belches up wild demons in a storm.


got first place...

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Graves for mariners,
leaning towards the sea,
a lot lop-sided
as if seasick

Gravely now,
we went towards the graves,
the sea churning,
then marinating green

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6/22/2015

Contest  -  Any Old Poem #7

Sponsor  - SKAT A 

1st place win...

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Whoops. Mariners lost 
again yesterday.

to God we would pray
make Mariners better play
do day after day

empty is each store
are not around anymore
rich replaced by poor

what we would suggest
have gained much growing unrest
failed to pass each test

threw curve with a spin
my Mariners lost again
when should win win win...

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DICK
Big whale Dick
Poor soul red hollows
Death, harpoon, strikes
HARPOON STRIKES
Harpoon strikes
The whale wails
A little water added to the brine
SEA BRINE
Whale's blood
warm as your daughter
Your harpoon kills her sibling
SIBLING
My whale brother
Is your meat so soft?
Your fat lights Faroe.
MOBY
Mariners
Mars and Venus
Moby Dick....

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dusted canyons
wild children play
blackbird finding its way home
Jesus said i should take more care
wanderings to smooth the soul

Solitude my melancholy way
who tussles these days?
I do not understand
what it is  I wait for?

Leitmotifs are aplenty
sounds are driving us
we become the score


wrapping through the empty years
laughing at the tears inside
of a mariners ghost....

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The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantly
Or swarthy seafarers incessantly
On oceans perilous, tempestuous
A sailor’s salvation eternally

09~19~14
Jan Allison
Contest: The Lighthouse
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Form: Rhopalic verse
~awarded 1st place ...

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Myriads of murmuring marine maidens
Musically musing, making mariners mad;
Floating or frolicking freely and feeding
Feverish fishermen’s fleshly fantasies.
Sensually swimming silvery seductresses
Stripping slobbering sailors of their senses.
Inveigling and inspiring them to inundate the waters
In instant insanity in pursuit of Neptune’s daughters.
To some this may come as a shocker:
Mermaids lured them into Davy Jones’ locker....

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The Ocean has no conscience,
no judgment, joy, or hate

She dances with you to her beat
in stirring waves of fate

With reverence you may enter
all blessings on the day

But just one slip and she reminds
what ancient mariners say…

“Red sky at morning, sailors take warning
red sky at night, sailors delight”

Her message best taken when early to bed
life in the balance, her power to dread

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: June, 2022)...

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She came aboard my sinking ship
a death blow to the bow,
attempts to bail and keep afloat
this mariners tattered sails.

Plot a new course and navigate
in storms and angry seas,
this vessel lists in the swells
life plundered by piracy.

Now this new maidens charge
is to steer starboard side,
for a new sheltered port 
with rising tides.

This once scuttled ship
ill winds cast adrift,
is now tacking leeward
this sailors gift!...

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Know God Never Denies

We know that God never denies,
My oh my how time always flies;
For His sake;
Prayer will make;
Much faster than we did realize;
A soldier fighting in a field dies.

Jim

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When we first saw Columbus struggling ashore,
we were mildly amused.

Later, more well marinated mariners
brought with them
garlic, olive oil and tomatoes,
all of which we had no use for -
the tomatoes gave us acid reflux.

When they offered to feed us
an ugly and bitter edible
they called ‘broccoli,’
we knew
that we had to make war upon them.

No use!

In the end, we were defeated;
their garlic breath was too strong,
their pizza pie way too delicious.

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