Best Submarine Poems

From fathoms deepest keep, where man,
Shall not dare go, a white toothy giant
Dwells, with hatred's malice, this is a living man
Eater, whom lies at the bottom of the ocean.
In this striking zone, of deadly encounters,
Here where dead men tell no tails, crimson
Currents of the lifeless,...

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Submarine sandwich
how hoagies were meant to be
satisfies hunger...

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I took a dive
And saw the fish. 
A star fish too…
I made a wish.

An octopus,
A scuttling crab,
The ocean’s floor
Is never drab.

As mermaids sing
And dolphins play,
I wish this was
My holiday.

A treasure chest,
A sunken ship.
Now time to leave -
But what a trip.

I can’t believe
The things I’ve seen;
I...

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While all parked in their separate places
Couples were watching the Submarine Races
Trying hard not to show their faces
The chicks with all of their graces
Put their tops back on - their Chantilly Laces!...

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Well here and now, I'm gonna come clean
There'll be no mistaking exactly what I mean
I love the young ladies
Though I'm in my eighties
Waiting to do battle with my anxious submarine


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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A foreign diplomat has sustained a head injury.
He cannot undergo the usual neurosurgery.
Instead, something out of the ordinary is due.
A submarine is used with a team of surgeons for a crew.
They shrink the sub to less than microscopic size.
They enter the man’s body with this...

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SUBMARINE

It was Navy Day on the River Tyne*
I can remember I was about nine.
Four big grey warships to be seen
And a small black submarine.
The big ships were truly splendid 
With  flags and lights. They reminded
Me of  olden days  when ships had sails
And...

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Upper lid shut
All worries out
I dive to meet my target
I will hit it no doubt

I stalk my prey
All he can do is pray
He will go down before, "Oh! Lord" he can say
He will see what will be his last day

God help him, if in my...

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One night way out by the Old Beach
I started out being a leech.
While watching the Submarine Races
I almost made it to all of her bases
Till she moved back just out of my reach.

She cried ,"Tomorrow you won't respect me!"
I pleaded, "Why do you now reject...

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deep sea
would be
new  bub
on sub
fall down
long frown
nerves shot
gut knot
crush depth
last breath
light red
hope fed
want live
may give
can’t bear
no air

2/13/2022

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inspired by the movie Black Sea...

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Musical submarine 
Down South
John Lennon, toilet paper and comb
Hendrix put down his guitar
Hummed and sang  rrrr, brrr, dooo

Ride of the Valkyres
At the Royal Albert Hall
Nearly four thousand players 
What a buzz in the place
Good vibrations

Alabama Vest
Warren Herbert Frost
George D Smith
Africans before them
Ceremonial noises
Mirliton and...

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Under the windowsill 
Ages dripped across the frosting wood
Now snow, the warm touch of a finger 
Aggravates the soul of a tiger
As the pyramids stand absolute amidst a sand storm
The Nile runs red with the tears of angels
A jolt in the heart’s pulse and the...

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“Yes” here we go
Dangling to and fro
In the midst of a sinking submarine
Taken is our right
A future of constant fight
Still we all pull together as a team
In the midst of a sinking submarine
Forth and back
Bobbing so slack
As if awake in the centre of a dream
The...

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once aboard the desert submarine
anchored by the golden sundial
outlandish and phosphorescent
we crossed the greatness 
of many drowned landscapes
fluxes of algae and shrewish freesias
cloistering up
dans le château à la lune
where the ragman’s lantern announces
the arrival of the fearful butter knight
he’s tattered and salted
the endangered specimen
straight from...

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bake the beans - navy.
stir the gravy thick.
blue’s wavy, pot tips.
savvy cook, seasoned,
floats the pan
ballast-crew chows down.

12/7/2017...

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