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The Pirate Manifesto: 5 Principles of Piracy.

Here’s the Hook

I’ve a hook for a hand, it’s a dangerous partBut more dangerous still is the hook in my heartShe threw me a line and that’s all that it tookShe caught and released me but left in the hook The bait was so pretty, the lure was her lipsSnared in her fishnets and tossed from theContinue reading “Here’s the Hook”

The Siren’s Call

She hears her ocean callIt echoes in her shell-like earsAnd she casts one more glance at meAnd casts herself into the seaShe’s in Poseidon’s thrallHis rolling waves engulf the tearsShe’s weeping as she sings to meAnd pulls me down into the sea She comes for me each nightDown on the lonely shoreOne of Triton’s daughtersSheContinue reading “The Siren’s Call”

Eyepatch

I’ve one eye for darkness and one for the lightThere’s one for below and one up where it’s brightI’ve singular vision but excellent sightI see you in sunshine, I’ll see you tonight.I’ve an eye for the sails and the winds and the sunAnd one for belowdecks, the treasure, and gunsI can’t see to deep, withContinue reading “Eyepatch”

The Pirate’s Valentine

My ship was at anchor, her carriage was stuck,As the plague and the storm racked the worldThough safe from the lightning I was thunderstruckBy the grace and the light from this girlThe shelter was brutal, a tavern so lowThat the rats had all left it to miceOn Valentine’s Night with the fire aglow,We were there,Continue reading “The Pirate’s Valentine”

My Regal Wig

We are true, we are valiant We’ve always been free, For the beauty that’s tallied Is more than we see, And we take from the world What she chooses to give,For we wake and unfurl, And the black flag’s a sieveFor to strain out the falsehoodsThat hypocrites rig,As they quake as they shouldAt the sightContinue reading “My Regal Wig”

The Sea Witch

When a Pirate’s spyglass is trained on the past;His deeds and the things he’s not done:That’s the Sea Witch, and all of the spells that she castThat’s left him becalmed in the Sun:On a sea that was still, with no sail and no mast,In the dark of more Dungeons than one,All the gold that wasContinue reading “The Sea Witch”

In Service to the Queen

It was once that I was handsomeIt was once when I was youngI was hard and fast and seventeenIn service to the QueenI lost my hand to the cannonsI lost my eye to the swordAnd I’m sorry for the things I’ve seenIn service to the Queen c:In service to the Queen- beforeIn service to theContinue reading “In Service to the Queen”

The Empty Bottle

Well, the Rum only asks for one other RumAnd the Grog makes you groggy all dayAnd the Pale Ale and WineIt all seems so fine‘Til you’re pissing your blood all awayWell the Whiskey it risks me so terriblyFor it fills me and burns out my soulEvery Port is a stormAnd I wish I weren’t bornToContinue reading “The Empty Bottle”

The Giant Clam

Drydocked in a Southern port, The barmaid took my measure. Threw away my mug of rum, She offered me a treasure. Took me to her secret cove, Eagerly I stripped and dove, And there below; by all that’s damned–‘Twas a giant clam Every pirate loves a pearl,It is the Queen of gems; When the clamContinue reading “The Giant Clam”