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First Mate Poems - Poems about First Mate

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Premium Member sky scraper
... I was … awake … in the crow’s nest but doing all I could to not nod off we had been through storms that day and all the previous night (such was the North Bering) so not a soul had slept ......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captain Nate Part 1
...Aye, aye! Said the Captain, who spoke on his date, He spoke on his date to his very first mate, His very first mate, the lady Miss Tate, The very first lady to say he was great! Yes, yes, m......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, adventure, betrayal, crazy, fate,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Captain Nate Part 2
...Aye aye, said the captain, who spoke to his mate, The very same mate, who choked on his plate, A young pirate laddie, with one common trait, A rabid distaste for the food which he ate. Oh how c......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, appreciation, blessing, character, depression,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part II: ANSWERED
...My distracting theatrics verses are preempted versions of impending calamity, one by air, and, one by sea. The point of levity is to advance the common element of surprise--the unexpected......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pirate Penguin is new to the Captain Game
...Pirate penguin had a song in his oversized heart It was singing and chiming in a new kind of art. He investigated the plank and laughed with a lark. Now we wait for a crocodile, he said to first m......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, animal,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Pirate Ship
... Once upon a time, A pirate ship came to mind. Large and flowing, With figure head all knowing. Leading the ship day and night, Into the latest pirate fight. ......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye my first mate
...I spend my days in slumber But no dream could ever match The smiles and the wonder That had kept our love latched Even in storms you were my summer You were the calm as waves crashed And y......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the adventure of a lifetime
...grab goggles, private sugarly said, we are head to the depths of the sea. henry pea, her comrade, threw the binoculars and they hit a knee. "that’s okay, you can’t hurt the captain of this adventur......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Demise of a Newborn Dragonfly
...Its delicate wings no longer wet, it stretched well, And flew up high holding onlookers in its spell. Round and around it danced over the eerie pond All covered with water lilies but not beyond......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member more sausage gravy for Stephanie
...Stephanie did not know about sausage gravy Until she decided to join the US Navy. What is this delicious stuff? She asked her first mate. Biscuits and gravy; ain’t it enormously great? She want......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smashing Slashing Gnashing Storm at Sea
...Smashing slashing gnashing storm at sea Tossed the ships, sailors, Sammy, Elise and me. We clung to the rudder and the wheel too But she tossed us around like we weighed an ounce or two Hold on......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, sea, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Voyage by Max Burchett
...by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett Set sail on an ocean, An unknown sea, At times adrift, unknown destination, No compass or charts to see. No return to original harbor I must sa......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, destiny, fate, journey, life,
Form: Lyric
Henry and Harry
...Henry and Harry were fine old boys Float the Mississippi on my convoy They worked real hard, but then I found Henry’s chased Harry round and round Henry was caught by the devil’s claws So we t......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, abuse, love, river, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is On Board
...Pink gladiola fleet entered the Dutch canal at two o’three. One of the pirates said “Whoopdee dee dee” What’s on board? Asked a first mate named Prix. Not sure, he said, but it might be pretty gir......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Eye of the Storm
...Captain Mars left the wheel to Sarge, first mate I have to check the lower deck, he said. If I am not back in twenty minutes, I won’t be back. The mate was new, he had no idea what that meant T......Read the rest...
Categories: first mate, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry

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