Steersman Poems - Poems about Steersman

...(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school) What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark. Earlier, at school... ......

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...The steersman dry-heaves into rolling scuppers, the skipper dozes fitfully in his sodden berth spew dribbling from a tossed piss pot. The deck is also heaving; fo......

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...On display, million dollar vessel in canal's sunk tide Tucked away, among mangrove mud clotted denial Puce pearl oily oyster tender is tenebrous, enduring Glorified twilit stygian tomb stratum, fr......

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...What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure i must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark. Earlier, at school... It was a clear spelling out, like steel cuts thru fruit. As......

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...The Indian Ocean is mean and deep And careless sailing often death doth reap It’s wild and vast a lonesome place to be Needing to ply these waters has no glee Angry relentless waves tall meters h......

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...Listen and you can hear the wind whisper the name of a lost ship and its skipper. The wind’s name is Favonius, winged god His sotto voce is but a whimper. Gentle breeze doth tell of China Clip......

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...Start your anchor boat steersman Sun declines in the west The new wife awaiting on the near bank Hope to return to own land That free air unbound movements The rice cake and Cares of blood. ......

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...BOAT TRIP It was a short enough trip - an hour’s Travel with few diversions near Which filled us with joy, or brought a tear: Just different spots between showers. Fellow passengers showed ......

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...Joy in work means joy in life, And where none shirk there is no strife. Bear down there, young man; The wheel's in your hand. Steady, set to it; You know you can! The glorious softness of m......

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