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.


Premium Member Dusk At Sea

sun slips behind clouds transparent tangerine glow a sailor's delight
written August 26, 2021
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Whalers Fate

seamen pulling hard
powerful harpooner strikes
Nantucket sleigh ride
unyielding force of nature
sea claims sailors forever
Form: Tanka

Seamen

Seven slurring stout sociable salty sailors
Standing stealthily silent
Solo
Sharing secret salacious
Stirring sailing stories.
© Chris Conn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Other

Premium Member taken by a hurricane

may was seen briefly
in the eye of the hurricane
then taken by sea

a mirage maybe
eight sailors tell her tale
a missing mermaid

A New Vessel and Sailors

Drunken are sailors
Three loose sheets in the 
wind
The fourth in the wind
The vessel spick-and-
span new
Moves in a uncontrolled 
way.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Play Misty For Me

sailors take warning;

while the earth sleeps under mist

trees embrace the sun




Entry in the Nature's Breath contest
Did not place
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Stitches

my shoe shot into the air like fireworks — polished black my sailor-sock in shock Japanese sailors in stitches 3/6/2020

Premium Member Astride Distant Shores

Squinting, straining ocular muscles
  unveils a lonely, battered beacon
astride distant shores, welcome signal
  to weary sailors bleary-eyed

Premium Member Forgotten

piercing the dense fog
lighthouse with lifesaving rays...
defys elements

new technologies
embraced by modern sailors...
old friend abandoned
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Maine Sailors

At
the end
of their watch-
squared up to the
storm

Ekphrasis Eight Bells by Winslow Homer

http://www.davidrumsey.com/AMICA/amico516449-56299.html
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Waiting For Sailors

waiting for sailors who battle King Neptune's wrath. . . their watery graves For the Haiku 102 Poetry Contest of Nathan D
sea
Form: Haiku

Premium Member waken

then the sun winked at the night's lazy clouds
and they blushed...with a pinkish sigh
not knowing whether or not to warn
the sailors ~ of a distant storm...
sea

Premium Member Ominous

Ominous

Morning sky warning:
calm waters are misleading;
the sailors fear not.
I thought, “Why don’t they turn back,
avoiding calamity?”
Form: Tanka

In the Deep

Battling clouds and waves
                                Sailors savor its huge wrath  
                                                       Chaos in the deep
sea
Form: Haiku

Lusty Louise

The lusty octopus Louise
Loved giving young sailors the squeeze

With her tentacles great
She could satisfy eight

Leaving all hands on deck with large hickeys
Form: Limerick

Lonely Sailors

Lonely in the morning
Sailors take warning, 
Lonely in the night
Sailors delight.

Now if a sailor anyhow encourage,
They can stay there with complete courage.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Snappers

There once was a Chick from the sea
whose two buxom breasts were set free.
Twin seaweed straps snapped
as thunder clouds clapped
and the sailors drown ecstatically.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Scuttle diplomacy '

Will sailors be scuttling ships.' 
If the US navy; gets in a real fix? 
In the great gulf of a war
with  rockets in short store
Hulls in shallows, like half showing bricks'
Form: Limerick

Siren of the Sea

Sabine a spoil, selfish siren of the sea
her song is sweet as honey
luring sailors to their deaths
then sneering as their ships
smashed upon the shore.

ALesiach © 9/30/2015

Premium Member Seaworthy

Ship
Sonar
Sea captain
Sailors aboard
Search

Squall
Strike sails 
Starboard side
Swinging the lead
Swell

3/10/19

Light Up The Page 2 Contest

Sponsor: Joseph May
Form: Lanterne

Reckless Sailors

Humans are reckless sailors
sailing in the stormy sea of the universe.
The passengers seem drunk
after swallowing  intoxicating liquor 
squeezed from the breasts of civilization

Sympathy

I knew a man with a sailors hat
Fat and chubby, smelled like a rat
         kissed him out of stupidity,
         now he's down on one knee,
Somebody give me a baseball bat!

6-4-12
Form: Limerick

Premium Member I watch from the Bow

Mystical Rubenesque full moon pregnant with evening dust
Showing sailors and clipper ships their way across ebony waters
I watch from her bow as we glide seamlessly across the top

Premium Member All At Sea

Pirates P l u n d e r Treasure Sailors A b a n d o n Galleon IN Just A Few Words Poetry Contest Sponsored By Joseph May 20/28/20
Form: Verse

Premium Member Tempest

cataclysmic waves

                                     awaken sailors' nightmares

                                      last rites claimed by sea







Written on 2/10/2016
Form: Haiku

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