Classic poem of the day
Once was an Age, an Age of blood and gold,
An Age of shipmen scoundrelly and bold —
Blackbeard and Avery, Singleton, Roberts, Kidd:
An Age which seemed, the while it rolled its quid,
Brave with adventure and doubloons and crime,
Rum and the Ebony Trade: when, time on time,
Real Pirates, right Sea-Highwaymen, could mock
The carrion strung at Execution Dock;
And the trim Slaver, with her raking rig,
Her cloud of sails, her spars superb and t......
Member poem of the day
Autumn, a time for reflections on reflections
and they are rife, linked to pearly grey sky
lake, puddle, mud strewn path or no,
while each steep cliff face boldly juts its
sheer defiance without concession or a budge
through jagged edge loadstone chipping
as the chilling froth-tipped sea mounts its saline tumult irrespective of an iron cast continuing rebuttal.
One can pass the baton u turn so turbulent
within our mental recess a...
Popular poems
Random poem
Random Image
