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RUNNER-UP: Orc_Pirate_68

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Shipwrecked

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ReggiePoet
Reggie
Fire of Insight
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Joined 13th May 2018
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In the Deep


He wrote, “I am the captain of my soul!”
But Henley steered a much more noble helm!
The schooner that I steer tacks near sheol
My soul has foundered in this murky realm!
Most fearful dreams appear here in the deep
Where, undisturbed, malignant spirits lie
The secrets of the sea, forever sleep
Unseen, except by lost and damn’ed eyes
My fate was bought and sealed so long ago
And naught can change it now, unless by chance
My soul, by favored winds who deign to blow
Reprieve my way, may lift my circumstance!
Once overwhelmed by doubt and ghastly fears
Shall I evade the place of wrath and tears?


Written by ReggiePoet (Reggie)
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Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 9th Nov 2015
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Orca

A gutted ship's hull lists,
dragged into a roiling sea
filled with blue-glass shark fins,

leaving entrails of fever through
depths of eternal night,

the oil-slick surface,
shifting mottled moonlight

on coral reefs calcified against
the leaves of bodies that drift by,

sinking, to disappear into
canyon fissures deeper than the
shadows of heaven can reach,

pods of whales cruise overhead
giving off their eerie cries,

baleful orgasmic moans
as they claim their take
from the debauch of a hunt.

The moon reaches its apex
over the battlements,

deceptive silence belies
the solitude of a killing
during an orca night.
Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
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MadameLavender
Guardian of Shadows
United States 86awards
Joined 17th Feb 2013
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Whydah 1717


Wind and waves which sang, before,
and drove our ship to foreign shores,
have tossed our stern, aft, to and fro
as tangled riggings dive below.

O’ come along , a siren’s song
beckoned on the rocks, in throngs
of mangled marble, granite teeth,
to tear our hull, sheaf from sheaf .

“Mercy, Lord!” our voices go’ed
within the eddy’s tidal flow
of lashing swells, a-hurricane—
ah, Whydah Gally, was her name.

Through snapping mast and creaking groan,
the laden belly found its home
in sandy shoals, a-capsized, south ;
golden coins in fishes’ mouths.

And now we sigh, pirate’s lament,
for in the storm our souls have rent
and tore our lives each way, asunder;
scattere’d us among our plunder.

Ahoy and ‘ho, in Providence’s ways—
‘Whydo, ‘Whydo’s lives, we gave.





(True story of the pirate ship Whydah , which sank in a hurricane in 1717 off the coast of Wellfleet MA)
https://www.discoverpirates.com/



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snugglebuck
Dangerous Mind
United States 77awards
Joined 3rd Feb 2014
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Love in Atlantis

Forget New York City
London Venice or Paris
If you’re searching for love
You need visit Atlantis

Somewhere below the warm sea
Dwells a romantic metropolis
Where love blooms eternally
Within a protective acropolis

Where tender hearts never break
Despite the perils of passion
For fidelity still has a place
In this refuge of devotion

When I was shipwrecked sailor
I found true love in this city
After lovely aquatic angels
Appeared and rescued me

Then I fell with a particular
Pretty submariner cherub
But decided to resurface
To say goodbye to my parents

But alas, I could not find
My way back to Atlantis
Where my true love still waits
With loyalty and patience

So, when I finally come to pass
I am to be buried at sea
That I might return to Atlantis
Where my sweet angel waits for me
Written by snugglebuck
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slipalong
Dangerous Mind
United Kingdom 41awards
Joined 1st Jan 2018
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storms and squalls

Is what we had, who we now are  
The diamonds tide sparkle hide the clouds  
The storm beyond horizons curve  
  
The brig it claims calm sea  
But tenticles of doubt reach out from the deep  
And drags regard out of its chained keep  
 
The steadfast anchor holding fast  
That slipping like seaweed  from your  grasp  
 That was so strong to feel its collapse  
 
Waves that crash, dash rays of hope  
The deluge of feelings swamped the bare soul  
And scream at the clouds when you dreams have eloped  
 
A privateer he plundered from your heart  
The peaks disturbed synoptic chart  
Drenched with passion no end and no start

The rocks tear at the keel
The treasure sank in fathoms deep
Neptune's gain that wreck so breached
 
For calm bring the spirit reborn  
Storm the veil a life to cut and fall  
And then be reunited after all  
 
And then become the breaking dawn
Like Halcyon and Cerex  in the spray unites
The iridescent Kingfisher to flash before the eyes    
   
 
    
Written by slipalong
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cabcool
Guardian of Shadows
Jamaica 12awards
Joined 27th Feb 2014
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antagony

an ant afloat  
aloft a leaf  
sucked by the oceanpull  
clung to his boat  
for sweet relief  
his racing heart fear-full  

with twirls and turns  
and somersaults  
the vessel stayed its course  
while fixed astern  
true to a fault  
ant faith was none the worse  
 
his legs held fast  
with all their might  
although insane the tide  
no slight bomb blast  
nor day nor night  
could pluck him, for the pride  
 
of captain ant  
put to the test  
would keep him safe and sound  
till triumphant  
o’er leaf arrest  
his feet kissed solid ground  
 
© Copyright 2019 March 16
Written by cabcool
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