Sonnet Voyage Poems

Does, like birds and beasts, gratifying daily needs suffice?
What's more? What should I aim at? Like a sage, where should I go?
The things and beings...

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Water filled each cleft and crevice; unease within you grew.
Though physically brave, I couldn't withstand the strong wave.
I felt, yet, in the end, contentment with...

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Hundred million K' away neighbour, Mars
     Hovers bolognese smeared brother, ice brick
     Fondness for possibles although bizarre
...

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On third voyage five centuries ago
   sailed the Spanish Main a Queen’s fleet south-west,
 and the age of discovery’s great glow
  ...

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Their rustling becomes forgot part of past;
No pleasant environment can everlast,
Days of fall for reason their shade o'ercast,
So, we can clearly observe the contrast.

Nature has...

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In smoke and flames of mighty Apollo
  T-minus fifteen seconds, engines on!
O ship of divine distance I saw go
  when rocketeers on lunar...

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I’d set upon a long, uncertain voyage.
Twas one to test the pilot’s skeely art
Of navigating perils yet uncharted 
While facing fears to daunt the stoutest...

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*Image of Animals Noah by Pixabay.

Think Big, Worry Less

The day hath appeared as all creatures met,
they hath parted themselves by groups of twos,
as they slid,...

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W. S. Rendra translations

Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra (1935-2009), better known as W. S. Rendra or simply Rendra, was an Indonesian dramatist and poet. He said,...

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Thy never punishes but nourishes
Wisdom out of boredom
It's the outbreak of fellows
With merely civilized mellows
Who brought Corona to verona
And made coward with Covid
Nature freaks survival...

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All across the continents I chased her
Following the rainbow to win her gold.
Hoping somehow, someday, I’d embrace her,
A treasure beyond price that I might hold.

Beyond...

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In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
 
for George King
 
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining...

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Beneath the yawning, azure skies of Earth,
          We left our seed to wend the Sea of...

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“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”*
Such is my Saviour’s loving assurance
While He sails with me along life’s vast sea
In His peace-boat midst voyage...

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I am reminded as I look to this bell
with Penola inscribed upon it in brass
of heritage to which it testifies well.
Sixteen men borne over the...

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