Short Sailboats Poems

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Premium Member On a Summer's Day

The water shimmered on the bay.
The sailboats all went out to play.
Mary let down her hair 
by the water there -
all on a summer's day.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Our Speedy Mama Duck

our mama duck is not like the others
the other mamas glide like sailboats
she drags us around faster than a jet ski
because she is a Gemini daddy says

Premium Member A Bright Future

Pretty sailboats glide in molten sun
toward a new gold horizon


Written on 3/7/2023
For: A New Crystalline - Any 
Theme Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

By a Drowsy Lake

feathery cloud floats,

                                       drowsy lake yawns, slow sailboats,

                                                  warm breeze takes off coats
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Summertide Pairings

cinnabar and cinnamon
strawberries and cherries
apricots and luscious mango
windchimes and crystals
hummingbirds and butterflies
sailboats and sunsets
summer nights and nuptials



AP: 3rd place 2025
Form: List


Premium Member Waves On the Lake

On a bright sunny day
The waves of the lake
Rushes to the shore
The children jumps
the waves

Sailboats are in the water
Enjoying to sail 
with the wind
Together the sailboats 
are one
On the choppy water
Form: Imagism

Frogs On Lilly Pads In Review

Frogs

Frog follies this year
featuring the loudest croak
All frogs in review!

Lilly Pads

Floating lilly pads,
used in spring as sailboats for
poliwogs galore!


Marty Owens for Lilly Pads and Frogs contest
Form: Haiku

Your Eyes

each shore was not shallow
I didn't know before
without falling into your eyes

and sailboats would pass
when your eyes laugh
from my deserted coast

believe to my words
I couldn't even breathe
without your eyes
art

Premium Member The Sun

the suns bursting energy
sets off an illumination heat source
as trees slowly drop their leaves
becoming bare-boned
their slender branches
with chipped bark
from ornery squirrels
playfully collecting nuts
across Indian Lake
the water ripples 
from oncoming 
sailboats
catching the last of falls wind

Premium Member Rabat Is a Black Pearl

Rabat is a black pearl
   Of cellophanic rainbow
Gazing upon waves that curl
   And lick a shore little known.

Gibraltar is the dock
   Where it steadfast moors -
Enjoying sailboats that flock
   The Mediterranean course

Yet Barbary lions live
   Not far, in the Rif Mountains -
Golden, assertive -
   Their kasbah amid the grass.
Form: Rhyme

Sweet Peace

A weekend of solitude in a hotel
standing on the sandy beach
watching sailboats dancing and drifting
in the waves at heels of the harbor
composing a song of island escape
beyond the soothing sunrise
and the gorgeous hibiscus
painting sparkles in the light
like a constellation overlapping in the wind
outpouring a taste of blessings from the heart
© Mia Pratt  Create an image from this poem.

Loner Soul

Sailboats in blue ocean waves
Swaying through stormy breeze
Dove sailing in that clear blue sky
Like a white silver jets.

Behind that white misty clouds
Was a hidden tiny walls
Covered with dark icy cubes
Is a sad, loner soul.

Teardrops from one soul's eyes
Flowing softly to the deep seas
As it washed pain and sorrows away
Like a cold stormy day.

Premium Member Written in the Stars

It may have been written in the stars,
more likely it was written by Venus and Mars,
that ancient attraction between birds and bees,
shiny locks and shiny keys.

Secrets of space and time
wrap themselves into grace and rhyme~
stars strike the notes,
solar winds and sailboats…

Gravity writes the laws of attraction
resulting in celestial perfection.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Myrtle Beach Moments

Flickering stars vibrate on the surface of the sea Fluttering palm trees sprout out of the sand Flying wheel in the sky hovers above the beige~blue land~sea~scape pulsing with waves~white foam~kites~sailboats a bustling boardwalk bedazzled by a vast calm ocean i n v i t i n g ~~~~~~~F*r*e*e*d*o*m~~~~~~~

Premium Member Our Family Vacation at Pine Tree Inn

    A few scattered yellow wood cabins
       a swimming pool surrounded by pines
    
    a pier to fish from, a lake not to go in
       ‘cept for the stinkpots* and sailboats                *i.e., motorboats

    marshmallow roasts by the campfire at dusk
      a ghost story or two to relate

    along with the hotdogs and burgers that day
      the ghosts evicted whatever we ate

Premium Member Vacation At the River

River never sleeps by the city, nightlights highlight the dance craze faze of evening party-goers upon blue waves; swimmers sailboats descend during days. Time speeds by as children thrill yelling splashing elation-filled river walk’s, shopping sprees raking in green dollar bills; folks enjoying summer grills, need tummy pills by vacation’s end.

Premium Member Embracing March

march tiptoed embracing joy
                                  daffodils peek, so tulips
                            clouds float like rainbow sailboats
                            gloomy wintry snowy days depart





                                            March 6, 2022
                                 For " March In" Poetry Contest
                                    Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Sailboat Race

The sailboats all line up
For their annual sailing 
           race
This race always take
            place
In the summer season
At the beach called Big Lake
A race like this last one week
Whether rain or shine
This race will continue
All sailboats must return
             to start
For the ending of the race
This race gathers a crowd
When coming to shore
The first to reach it
Will be the winner
Form: Sonnet

A Little Slice of Eden

Sailboats on the river,
Choppers in the sky,
Flowers blazing color -
How fortunate am I!

Butterflies a'flutter,
Painters en plain air,
School kids freed from classrooms
Being silly as they'd dare.

Tourists snap some photos,
Pigeons peck for crumbs,
Sunshine coats the atmosphere;
Anxiety succumbs.

A little slice of Eden
On a Wednesday afternoon
And whenever I must mosey
Will be much much much too soon.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Farmer's Field

There is a farmfield stretches outward
A red barn with some evergreen trees
Behind the barn a river is flowing
Sometimes sailboats passes and 
       row boats
The water is clear blue calm

In the grassy field are cows and buffalo
They come to fill their stomach with grass
Then stay out all morning and noon
Enjoying their time outdoors
While the farmer does his chores
Then work that needs to be done 
inside the barn

Premium Member Sea Angel

My church is a crystal ribbon of healing sand.
Where land ends -there nests a sky-blue lighthouse.
The turquoise ribbons, cooling down the sun-splashed land.
Seagulls reciting their verse, pipers sprint about.

Whispers of a child that was swallowed by the hag.
Outside the breakers, the sailboats dip their bows.
Strangers linking hearts, forming a throbbing chain.
A sea angel was born that day, but I never went back again.
Form: Rispetto

Sailboats

Does anything look more serene
Than sailboats in a harbor scene?
Their stark white jibs and hulls that glide
A sense of peace and calm provide.

I've only seen them from the shore,
Not having been in one before,
But I am grateful they're a'sea
When near the water I can be.

Though other boats with foamy wakes
Look lovely, I would wager stakes 
That none of them with sudsy trails 
Could soothe like any boat with sails.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hurricane

HURRICANE

whirlwind of the sea ~
ferocious spinning disc
gaining speed and wrath

the hurricane’s eye
with torrential force of tears
~ winds tortuous strength

wild waves warn the coast
with boats crashing into docks
~ only lunes remain

palms are tested as
coconuts plummet like hail
~ storm assails sailboats

Objects settle wind
to lesser tropical storm ~
sea salt soothes the wounds

9/7/2017
Hurricane contest
Form: Haiku

Spring Green

When all the world is kelly green
And every plant is lithe and young
When paper sailboats are in streams
One may be sure that spring has sprung

The forests grow dense with leaves
And the trails must again be blazed
Barren winter is but a memory
And the birds chirp songs of praise

When all the world is kelly green
And every plant is lithe and young
When paper sailboats are in streams
One may be sure that spring has sprung.
Form: Rhyme

Ottawa Beach

Seagulls soar
on a whispering west wind.
Waves flow
onto shoreline of white warm sand
and sandcastles grace the beach.

The sun looks down on its worshipers
from a billowing sky of blue and white.
A butterfly lands
on a wooden chair
and children laugh.

Noisy jet skis
powered by gas and testosterone
cleave the pristine sea,
while sailboats lazily drift
like swans on a rural pond.

On a midsummer day,
we drink in the nectar
of a Lake Michigan beach.

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