Travel Poems
#travel
Travel poems, poetry about travelling and exploring the world. Poems about our human desire for adventure and exploration. Through travel, we explore and learn about the world, and ourselves. Poetry about encountering different cultures, taking on new challenges, and meeting people with very different lives to our own.
herry_the_poet
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:58pm
Yesterday 10:58pm
Rocking Chair
Waking up early this morning
Is it a quarter after two?
The diesel engine ran all night
and now I wake up to THIS view
I throw open my sleeper drapes
in a place I had to back in
It's in the middle of the night
I'd better go check my kingpin
With a flashlight and tire thumper
I check my pigtail connection
While most people are home in bed
I'll do a quick pre-trip inspection
We'll check out brake pads and leaf springs
and try the old Lincoln's head trick
Make sure the bumper sits level
and not above a large oil...
Is it a quarter after two?
The diesel engine ran all night
and now I wake up to THIS view
I throw open my sleeper drapes
in a place I had to back in
It's in the middle of the night
I'd better go check my kingpin
With a flashlight and tire thumper
I check my pigtail connection
While most people are home in bed
I'll do a quick pre-trip inspection
We'll check out brake pads and leaf springs
and try the old Lincoln's head trick
Make sure the bumper sits level
and not above a large oil...
#job
#travel
39 reads
3 Comments
ExercisingDemons
Poem Published
13th Jun 2024 9:09pm
13th Jun 2024 9:09pm
Going Nowhere
I may buy a ticket for a plane,
any one riddled with rust,
amended by tape and flown
by pilots who are most likely late
to the job
Home late from anonymous dates,
no food ate, buzzed and overweight,
depressed, in no shape to fly,
but then neither am I,
start em up
any one riddled with rust,
amended by tape and flown
by pilots who are most likely late
to the job
Home late from anonymous dates,
no food ate, buzzed and overweight,
depressed, in no shape to fly,
but then neither am I,
start em up
#travel
50 reads
0 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Jun 2024 8:04pm
6th Jun 2024 8:04pm
Pirate Religion
Captain Halliday strode across the chamber to where his dogsbody, Perkins, was crouched over a desk with an eyeglass screwed in and his raggedy tonsure framing a bent head so that he looked like a miserly London clerk. ‘Well, what do we have thus far?’ said Halliday. Perkins read him the letter. It detailed the journey at that point in time, how well the Captain thought that the leaving ceremonies had gone (not well; he was a man of intense and stringent habits, almost religiously ascetic, and disliked any bent towards emotion, scolding the cabin boys for their womanly tears and trepidations)...
#historical
#horror
#sea #travel
#sea #travel
67 reads
2 Comments
mebo
Poem Published
1st Jun 2024 7:15am
1st Jun 2024 7:15am
The Fourth Watch
My watch is a proximate
Peg-legged rhyme
A mariner's rimed hazard
Off course
Intrepid, salty, faulty
Breached, shored up, still sure
Out of league
A foundling foundering
In ebbing cobalt elysian seas
Fathomless time unmoored
Peg-legged rhyme
A mariner's rimed hazard
Off course
Intrepid, salty, faulty
Breached, shored up, still sure
Out of league
A foundling foundering
In ebbing cobalt elysian seas
Fathomless time unmoored
#determination
#fate
#FeelingLost #travel
#FeelingLost #travel
70 reads
0 Comments
Isgyppie_
Poem Published
31st May 2024 6:41am
31st May 2024 6:41am
Affinity
Travelers are always scanning for
Familiarity
Even if it is only a hint
The crows eyes that remind you of
Your father
The simple hand gesture
That brings back the dead
The smell of Coney Island Diner
The gentle footsteps
Of a friend
I constantly scan for
Resemblance
I tell my heart to hold on
There is no distinction
Between knowing
There is no forgotten
Within love
Familiarity
Even if it is only a hint
The crows eyes that remind you of
Your father
The simple hand gesture
That brings back the dead
The smell of Coney Island Diner
The gentle footsteps
Of a friend
I constantly scan for
Resemblance
I tell my heart to hold on
There is no distinction
Between knowing
There is no forgotten
Within love
#grief
#love
#travel
50 reads
4 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
24th May 2024 5:21am
24th May 2024 5:21am
Nobody Cares That You Were Chased by a Donkey in Sardinia
She was probably rehearsing telling the story
as the event was happening
something about a donkey
persisntely rubbing up against her
which caused the other four teachers
at our last day of school happy hour
to ask why
Why would a donkey do that?
Eww.
I think he liked you, liked you
I quip
as I dip a chip into the cruelly fiery salsa
at the Mexican restaurant
in one of the most Mexican parts of town
now I'm being mildly pathetic
playing up my ethnic experience.
I was running so fast my heart rate...
as the event was happening
something about a donkey
persisntely rubbing up against her
which caused the other four teachers
at our last day of school happy hour
to ask why
Why would a donkey do that?
Eww.
I think he liked you, liked you
I quip
as I dip a chip into the cruelly fiery salsa
at the Mexican restaurant
in one of the most Mexican parts of town
now I'm being mildly pathetic
playing up my ethnic experience.
I was running so fast my heart rate...
#animals
#school
#travel
89 reads
7 Comments
averageJoe69
Ron Summers
Ron Summers
Poem Published
22nd May 2024 11:39pm
22nd May 2024 11:39pm
Late night subway ride
#lust
#travel
82 reads
0 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
19th May 2024 11:33pm
19th May 2024 11:33pm
Ocean Reef
Ocean Reef had mangroves
swampy low trees in the Florida Keys
Ocean Reef had horseflies the size of baby shoes
a lagoon with porpoises named Candy and Cesar
my friend David and I swam with
but then we had to get out
once a big blue bubble floated past me
Portuguese man o' war
Fortunate childhood
Fortunate near miss
Ocean Reef had golf carts
for navigating the sizeable property
kids could drive them
once they turned 12
I preferred to be a daydreamy passenger
Ocean Reef
had a landing strip
for...
swampy low trees in the Florida Keys
Ocean Reef had horseflies the size of baby shoes
a lagoon with porpoises named Candy and Cesar
my friend David and I swam with
but then we had to get out
once a big blue bubble floated past me
Portuguese man o' war
Fortunate childhood
Fortunate near miss
Ocean Reef had golf carts
for navigating the sizeable property
kids could drive them
once they turned 12
I preferred to be a daydreamy passenger
Ocean Reef
had a landing strip
for...
#beach
#childhood
#travel
126 reads
10 Comments
averageJoe69
Ron Summers
Ron Summers
Poem Published
28th Apr 2024 11:27pm
28th Apr 2024 11:27pm
Fun at 30.000 feet
#sexy
#travel
81 reads
8 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
25th Apr 2024 5:38am
25th Apr 2024 5:38am
think I'll start tonight
I've been a good girl
playing angel all week long
patience wearing thin
intentions, whispered
drive you mad the whole damn flight
wait 'til we get home...
.
playing angel all week long
patience wearing thin
intentions, whispered
drive you mad the whole damn flight
wait 'til we get home...
.
#seductive
#senryu
#travel
175 reads
11 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
25th Apr 2024 1:39am
25th Apr 2024 1:39am
Captive heart
I just can’t do it today.
Reached into the vault
where poetry should be –
Nothing.
After six days of fitting
"nicely"
into this ultra-conservative
highly reserved
octogenarian-paced life
I’ve had to stay buried
so very deep
I am nearly
unreachable.
Tomorrow, we head home.
And then…
I shall unleash
all my unseemly emotions
move my body freely
with inappropriate exuberance
utter long strings of
filthy cuss words
and unearth the truth
of the poet ...
Reached into the vault
where poetry should be –
Nothing.
After six days of fitting
"nicely"
into this ultra-conservative
highly reserved
octogenarian-paced life
I’ve had to stay buried
so very deep
I am nearly
unreachable.
Tomorrow, we head home.
And then…
I shall unleash
all my unseemly emotions
move my body freely
with inappropriate exuberance
utter long strings of
filthy cuss words
and unearth the truth
of the poet ...
#family
#NaPoWriMo2024
#travel #WritersBlock
#travel #WritersBlock
80 reads
6 Comments
Kou_Indigo
Poem Published
16th Apr 2024 7:04pm
16th Apr 2024 7:04pm
The Tale of Kareem al-Malak, Friend of Sinbad: Part Two
#sea
#mythology
#travel
#historical
#wisdom
48 reads
0 Comments
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