Short Seafarers Poems

lighthouses light 
seen between the oceans 
seafarers guidance...

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There, in that spontaneous blue
the sailors stroll, roam...
their words dream of conquests
or homecoming... !...

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http://www.seafarers.org/documents/May2016Log.pdf...

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Seasonal sea horse and sea lions named Sue 
Searching for a secluded seat in sea urchin’s seaweed.
Secreting secret signs, settling in a sailor’s simple shoe.
Securing secondhand seafarers, a signature of a sesame seed....

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Shining bright beacons
Fore warning, possible doom.
Edge end of the sea,

Seafarers delight
Magnified for gloom of night
Destination marks.

written by
Cecil Hickman

written for
Sponsor Russell Sivey 
Contest Name In the Light of Haiku...

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It appears undaunted, unstrainably
By duties dictated exclusively
To provide protection unfeignfully
For needed traveling unharmfully.

It safely furnishes luminescence
As proven effective unfailingly
In guiding seafarers efficiently
To harbors constructed judiciously....

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What are we, if not seafarers?
Writing words and aspirations to escape,
Kraken's grasp of deep dark seas.
Of turbulent brains during the storm.
A wave of skepticism, as if love was magic.
Isn't conceivable that this never occurs.

Written: November 29, 2022...

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A bird with a shadow as big as a bus
Archaic the sailors that in him will trust
Always at sea coming in from the stern
Arrogant seafarers will need to learn
Ancient beliefs all have basis in fact
As may become clear when the odds are well stacked
Adrift on a life raft?.. He’s poultry… that’s that...

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“Necessity is the mother of invention,”
Making the case for improvisation,
Seafarers would say, “jerry-rigging,”
Results can often create a sensation.
Using what’s at hand to get a job done
Sometimes new and better ways ensue
I’ve been known to fix it with duct tape
As a last resort, I’ve used Elmer’s glue.

Written August 30, 2022...

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monthly appearance
linked to rising homicide
increasing suicide rate
but to fishermen
lunar tide prompts appetite
creatures drawn from hidden depths


"Old Crater Face" smiles
seafarers love his allure
Moon Man baits their attention
moonbeams cast a spell
shimmering golden halo
lures the food chain from below...

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The Vanished home

 Most seafarers find their way home
others get lost on the way.
One was washed up on the shores of Algarve
and stayed the home he knew was no longer there.
But a memory of log fire and a mother
who read books and rarely looked up to see were
her children had gone.
It is all too late now; the seafarer lives another life....

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Powerful water-god 
Paradigm of Neptune
Pride of seas and oceans
Protects all seafarers
Placed as lord of horses
Paired to Amphitrite 
Put as god of earthquakes

Feb. 24,2022   6:18pm



Syllables counted through https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllable_counter/
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Greek mythology
Contest Judged:  3/8/2022 3:21:00 PM
Sponsored by: Joseph May
Place 1...

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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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~~~
Soft graceful effortless magnificence
From sweeping preambles omnipresence
O’er marine moistening proclamations
Tides flowing distanced admirations
Warm simple potency unprotected
Leads ancient seafarers disconcerted
To destine improvements phenomenon
Place complete peacefulness comprehension
~~~
©2014 by Regina Riddle
 THE LIGHTHOUSE - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: nette onclaud
September 23, 2014...

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Human Maggots  

If ejaculated semen
From millions of seafarers 
Over hundred years
Think if this floating loneliness
Had met up and formed
An Island
And up from its depth sprung
The unborn like larvae
Whose only contact
With mothers were what
The seaman 
Was dreaming of at the time
Not Atlantis re- emerging 
But an island born out of tedium
And tired desire
Not on a chart
To find its existence
So be careful when dreaming....

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Maggots
  
If ejaculated semen
From millions of seafarers
Over a hundred years.
Think of this floating loneliness
had met up and formed
An Island.
And up from its depth 
Sprung the unborn
Like larvae
Whose only contact 
With mothers
Depended 
On what the seaman
was dreaming at the time.
Not a new Atlantis emerging
But an island 
Of tedium
And tired desire.
Not on a chart
To see its existence
So, be careful when dreaming....

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Explorations of cerebral fascination
  Devilish ideas' mutated peregrinations
Spirited inhalations of tribal incantations
  Torso-twisting through saucy peregrinations

Whilst the grimy sesame toast's torn asunder
  Swashbuckling seafarers burble and blunder
Through Deli Yammer's roasted pickle bars de-acidified
  n Arm n Hammer's blue-cabbage-power shake de-histified

If you think all this is rather hard to follow
  Dr. Fauci's linking it in cuneiform on marshmallow...

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A fog bank on the Horizon, 
        As a barrier to our way. 
       And oh the sea, so tranquil, 
          No breeze to ruffle it's face. 
        Our ship drifting aimlessly, 
           Her sails hang motionless. 
         Like peace fullness, the stillness brings, 
            It teaches Hearts to rest. 
         Some sailing on this ship of life,        
            See Doldrums as an end
          Take courage fellow seafarers,
             The winds will come again....

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