Windlass Poems - Poems about Windlass

...RISKS Scarred hills, risked mine shafts, dark and deep. The plonk of a stone, dropped into water, far below. Kids drifted to sounds of the gold-rush, pick and windlass. But inside our school,......Read the rest...

...The Old Ship-Wright I’ve held the stars in the palm of my hand And ladled the sunrise where no man has been I’ve forged my anchors from hellish fires And planed fine teakwood that served th......Read the rest...

...Through a canopy of leaves ascending , Night a visage of rippling ebony her tears falling like raindrops bedazzling the dark Her arm a windlass spiraling coils of silken mist rolling , he......Read the rest...

...Jumpers taste the air tonight Black jelly fish ballooning into clouds and stars Slick of lip and jeweled of eyes breaking the wind with outspread fingers Pushing gravity on their bellies A thous......Read the rest...