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Short Sailors Poems

Short Sailors Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sailors by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sailors by length and keyword.


Sailors In the Yard
we're drinking Mad Dog
outside Seven Eleven
when in Newport News...

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Categories: sailors, memory,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Lost At Sea
The sea is unkempt
Unwary sailors regret
Thar mate has been swept...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailors, adventure, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku
Underway Sailors
Haze gray underway
to all the sailors at sea
may the seas sail well...

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Categories: sailors, military,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sirenum Scopuli Sirens
sultry, singing sirens simply seduced stupefied, shipwrecked, sailors...

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Categories: sailors, mythology, song,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Sailors Fear
Under sail at night
big swells become white water
dangers lurk beneath...

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Categories: sailors, anxiety,
Form: Haiku



Haiku 2
Trepidation brews
Crimson pillar spikes the night
Sailors take warning...

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Categories: sailors, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ocean-Ku
Rough, Wild, Dangerous
Sinking the Sailors and Ships
Breaking Hearts alas!...

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Categories: sailors, adventure, grief, imagination, journey, loss, ocean, sea,
Form: Haiku
In the Deep
battle of the seas
warriors clash with high force
sailors brace themselves...

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Categories: sailors, war,
Form: Haiku
Sailors Beware
Brightly shining light

Forewarning of some danger

Guiding sailors home....

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Categories: sailors, sea, visionary,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Paradise Michigan
captains, sailors dreams
known by their tragic shipwrecks
a hidden gem town...

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Categories: sailors, sad,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sailors Beware
foghorn's soulful moan
dense cover hides shallows' graves
mariners be warned...

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Categories: sailors, sea,
Form: Senryu
Sail Together
Sailors to the same direction can sail together in harmony. 

November 25, 2022...

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Categories: sailors, wisdom,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Old Sailors
old sailors still dream
mermaid beauty unseen
seashell lays on shore

©Donna Jones...

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Categories: sailors, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lighthouse
Despairing sailors seek succour beneath your warm cyclopean gaze
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Categories: sailors, environment, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Haiku
Spirit Coast: March 1st 2011
Ghostly galleon
Drifting with old drowned sailors-           
Swallowed by starlight....

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Categories: sailors, imagination
Form: Haiku
Wanting Reflections
Searching Beams,
wanting reflections,
for sailors to see





For Raul's contest...

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Categories: sailors, sea
Form: Haiku
Beguiled Lune
old salts reminisce
   maids with tails
   sailors nemesis

   8/ 4/ 2015.    number 3....

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Categories: sailors, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Distant Gleams
Distant gleams twinkle

   Beckon sailors, landlubbers 

      Thousand points of light...

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Categories: sailors, light, sea, stars,
Form: Haiku
Birds Eye View
Seagulls circle sinking schooner.
   Shipwrecked sailors safely swim ashore.

    11 / 13 / 2016....

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Categories: sailors, sea,
Form: Crystalline
Sailors Lament
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Under the chords of "white swan",

the disconsolate sailor cries,

copious tears of salt...!...

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Categories: sailors, allusion, analogy, cry, metaphor, song,
Form: Light Verse
Sea of Desire
There, in that spontaneous blue
the sailors stroll, roam...
their words dream of conquests
or homecoming... !...

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Categories: sailors, adventure, allegory, dream, extended metaphor, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sailors Warning
sailor’s warning

the blood orange sky
squeezed into the water’s depth
— rising for breakfast

6/1/2018...

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Categories: sailors, sea,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Chorus For a Sea Shanty
Set your willy on fire boys, 
set your willy on fire 
Dance and sing and hop and scream 
and set your willy on fire....

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Categories: sailors, boy, humor, men, music, parody, satire, song,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dusk At Sea
sun slips behind clouds transparent tangerine glow a sailor's delight
written August 26, 2021...

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Categories: sailors, sea, sunset, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Whalers Fate
seamen pulling hard
powerful harpooner strikes
Nantucket sleigh ride
unyielding force of nature
sea claims sailors forever...

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Categories: sailors, death, power, sea,
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs