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Yardarm Poems - Poems about Yardarm


The Curious Coif
...Enigmatically stubborn to style, the coif Some days it can be easily pulled off Other days it requires an exorcism Like Zoolander it can look like ‘Magnum’ Hides my receding hairline like a cha......

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Categories: yardarm, fashion, funny,
Form: Other
Sea Rage
...rootless on sapphire seas tides dishonored then begrimed a keel eroded, relentlessly thinned barnacles disguised with time drifting toward dark horizons battered and barely alive distant i......

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Categories: yardarm, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Adrift
...rootless on sapphire seas tides dishonored then begrimed a keel eroded, relentlessly thinned barnacles disguised with time drifting toward dark horizons battered and barely alive distant i......

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Categories: yardarm, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Number of Man
...Number of Man (Webster’s Ninth) Money trail reveals factor To assemble humans follow layout Swat down charges with linguistic racket Sticks more effective than carrot da......

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Categories: yardarm, evil, philosophy, political, rights,
Form: Sestina
The Raven Has Fled- Part One
...The ribbon is cut The die is cast The cement is dry Yet nothing lasts The brazen rewarded The hero a fool All reason outdated New fury the tool A journey presented Your ship to go far Wit......

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Categories: yardarm, allegory,
Form: Free verse



The Raven Has Fled
...“The ribbon is cut The die is cast The cement is dry Yet nothing lasts The brazen rewarded The hero a fool All reason outdated New fury the tool” A journey presented Your ship to go......

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Categories: yardarm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring's Coming An Iou In Lieu
...Slovenly winter's sojourn lingers, but dwindles away. Petulant cold snaps, squalls and hail the exit price you pay. Riddance wrung from season squeezed by hugs to relent reluctantly. In dawn's bud......

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Categories: yardarm, feelings, hope, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Henrey Morgan a Storm On the Spanish Main
...Henry Morgan is my name Being a pirate is my fame A landlubber wasn't for me Fortunes were made at sea From port and starboard cannons roar Through Spanish ships cannonballs tore Strike y......

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Categories: yardarm, history,
Form: Couplet
Monkey Hangers
...Monkey Hangers (A little historical factoid from your Uncle Mike) According to local folklore In England, there at Hartlepool A monkey was hanged from a yardarm A monkey that wasn’t a ghoul I......

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Categories: yardarm, education, history,
Form: Rhyme
Pirated Words
...I stole this poem with cutlass and eyes words lusted and trusted so I took of this prize it's chests of golden it's flashing jeweled verbs and left letters worthless to be picked by the birds sail......

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Categories: yardarm, adventure, imagination, success, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Billow the Sails!
...Aye and it’d be “Land Ho”, ya lazy landlubbers! It’s where ya’d be if ya’d had yer druthers, Braggin’ the seven seas and swiggin’ pints of ale, Chasin’ maidens and wishin’ on a mermaid tail! Loo......

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Categories: yardarm, fantasy
Form: Light Verse

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