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Seafaring Poems - Poems about Seafaring


Premium Member For the Finnic Death-goddess Louhi
Louhi Louhi, me gotta go Louhi Louhi, me gotta go. Fine little demoness waits for me Me sail across Pohjola Sea Me sail dat ship all alone I never think I go back home. Oh Louhi Louhi, oh behbee now, me gotta go Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Louhi Louhi, me gotta go. Three nights and days me sail that sea Me thinks of...

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Categories: seafaring, death, funny, sea, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Seafaring Cats
Seafaring cats on the deep blue sea They float away relaxed, happy and carefree I wish I was along, oh my, oh sigh, oh sorry me. I could use some of that joy, fiddle oh, fiddle dee....

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Categories: seafaring, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Seafaring Dreams
a page of my diary penned in blues crimped fold over fold crafted into an origami boat set afloat to drift free dreams and aspirations captured in yearning poured out and launched seafaring under a starry vault desperate plea to the winds of fate AP: 1st place 2020 Submitted on May 13, 2020 to contest SHUTTER SPEED sponsored by KAI MICHAEL NEUMANN - RANKED...

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Categories: seafaring, dream, fantasy, fate, longing,
Form: Free verse
Seafaring Days
My seafaring days Have come to an end All that brash exuberance Of youth, Now wasted on younger men. W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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Categories: seafaring, age, fate, old, youth,
Form: Tanka
Seafaring Foreigner
Seafaring Foreigner In steerage on a steamer with Figs conceiving in Vesuvian soil Hidden in a pot of a sturdy trunk Made of hope and adventure. Fear of Sights unseen and joys unbeknownst Of sons and daughters yet. Hazy canyons of skyscraping giants Overshadow brick row houses Hard at work, ethnic pride Shameful bathing, worn-in Clothing and nourishment Beyond the return to Much worse....

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Categories: seafaring, change, destiny, grandparents, hope,
Form: Light Verse



Seafaring Haikus
Sunrise at Sea past salt sight sun rises rubs the whitecaps from her eyes stretches forever # 34 air heavy with spice salt crisp on my lips and mind eyes blinded by stars Exile callous bejeweled I’m keeping secrets hidden salt upon my skin Gulf of Mexico watching the moon set sinking into the Black Sea orange slice slowly Red Sky at Night Sailors delight night waking in strangest...

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Categories: seafaring, adventure, beautiful, freedom, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Seafaring Irony
Its course is set by tended wheel A man of salt stands at the helm Not led by maps, but stars reveal The far off island, called King’s Realm The spray of mist falls fast upon The rough exterior of this man With squinted eyes, to see the dawn The island shows up just as planned A smile he forms with stogy stuck This...

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Categories: seafaring, life, sad, sea
Form: Quatrain
Seafaring Vagabond
'O,my love how my vessel creaks,this lifelong quest ...........passion inflamed on torrid sea's searching shore to shore,with no harbor to rest The standard I bear,proclaiming intention banner's flutter the wind,as my heart pounds a quickened pace, for oar's duration Distant,far reached continent's,many empty tropical island's are plenty but....there is only one,still bay that I wish to anchor..... My search continue's,as I long to find her........

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Categories: seafaring, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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