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Short Sailor Poems

Short Sailor Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sailor by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sailor by length and keyword.


Speed
Sailor
home from the sea
airman faster...

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Categories: sailor, america, angst, boat, war,
Form: Senryu



Question Me
son of a sailor
a jimmy buffet neighbor
margaritaville...

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Categories: sailor, art,
Form: Haiku
Untitled
Sailor

Shaped by wind and sea

Ship on the ocean floor...

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Categories: sailor, celebration,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member sailor's warning
sailor red sunrise
warm rays tame wild sea ripples ~
nautical warning...

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Categories: sailor, ocean, storm, sun,
Form: Haiku
Sea
Stage in blazing lights
Lovely steps of a hornpipe
Sailor boy's delight...

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Categories: sailor, life, nature, passion, sea,
Form: Haiku



Itty Bitty Sailor Girl
My mom used to say
 
  I swore like a sailor so-

       I joined the Navy...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailor, abuse,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Thought of the day
mind a prison and ego the jailer ~
shift now then to heart, oh fearless sailor...

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Categories: sailor, heart, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Unworthy
Sea’s waves overwhelm
Unworthy sailor at helm
Into murky realm 

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Categories: sailor, sea
Form: Senryu
Swells
caspian sailor
          having spousal dreams, creates 
                the sea's swell of tears...

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© Lisa Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailor, art, life, sea,
Form: Haiku
Sailors Lament
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Under the chords of "white swan",

the disconsolate sailor cries,

copious tears of salt...!...

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Categories: sailor, allusion, analogy, cry, metaphor, song,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What's In a Name
Soldier
and sailor,
virgin mary-
early springtime's true blue
delight

(the many named pulmonaria)...

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Categories: sailor, seasons
Form: Cinqku
Captian
If you're to be my Captain;
I am to be a simple sailor.
Alas, no captain are ye...
But me personal
Siren!...

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Categories: sailor, love,
Form: Free verse
The Moon Above the Water
The moon above the water

Directing a lonely sailor

Where will you guide her?

To the land of wander...

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Categories: sailor, boat, moon, night, sea, voyage,
Form: Tanka
Footprints In the Sand
Sunshine -
on a desolate beach
an old sailor marooned
trapped between
the ebb and flow
of distant tides...

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Categories: sailor, loneliness, longing, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Spinach Takes a Backseat
Folks suppose that Spinach
  is Popeye's favorite food
But the Sailor Man told me
  Olive Oil tastes pretty good...

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Categories: sailor, celebrity, food,
Form: Light Verse
Land At First Sight
From the bow of the ship,
      upon sighting dry land, the sailor
      yells at full lungs:
      Love at sight...!...

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Categories: sailor, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Epigram
Sunken Sailor
Tie one on
Yesterday I went to port
Today I'm going to court
I'm just a sad sailor
And I'm in jail
That's all I know...

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© Jim Bowron  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sailor, humor, word play,
Form: Free verse
Just a Thought
Thinker,
failure,
soldier,
sailor,
airman,
dead man,
grief.
Politician,
preacher,
blind man,
teacher,
banker,
usurer,
thief....

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Categories: sailor, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Guidance
plunging into void fearless sailor does set sail lighthouse beacon guides 01-September-2021
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Categories: sailor, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Tossed At Sea
Seamen of HMS Dribble
Take Sundays off just to quibble
They all enjoy
The Cabin boy
But which of them gets "First Nibble"?...

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Categories: sailor, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sheepish Smile
That sheepish smile
disarming a gruff poet
coyly offer hope

my Bridgewater seraphim
kick back wine like a sailor

 for K.C....

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Categories: sailor, friendship,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Rich Man, Poor Man
Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief.

A Soldier, Sailor,
And a Tinkering Taylor.

All shelter me
From this intolerable grief....

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Categories: sailor, angst,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Rich Man Poor Man
Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief.

A Soldier, Sailor,
And a Tinkering Taylor.

All shelter me
From this intolerable grief....

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Categories: sailor, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Ocean Foam
The Ocean Foam

Wayfaring sailor.
When mother and seas are one,
The ocean's foam cries.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    1/ 5/ 2008...

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Categories: sailor, love, mother, war
Form: Haiku
Guardian of the Deep
The blue Sea’s waves overwhelm
Seasoned Sailor at the Helm
Sharp teeth in the deep
Rough seas secrets keep
Demon guards his murky realm...

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Categories: sailor, adventure, sea
Form: Limerick

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