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Lv 7
. asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Would you read this pirate poem and c/c?

There be a ghastly tale I will tell, if ye but lend yer ear

Though it won't be pleasant at all, what yer about ta hear!

But time's come near fer me ta dyin', ta git it off m'chest

Now gather near m'bed, Lads, fer I have a last request

It were back in m'youth, and quite a figger I did cut

Broadest shoulders anywhere and lean around the gut

M'shadow, it cast a cloud of fear and 'pon many a poor man

And women, they fell like rain in Spring right inta me 'and!

The World was at me vera feet and ready I was ta play!

Ta seize women, wealth and Life! Nothin' ta stand in my way!

Ah, and so it was I signed up with ol' Teach's crew

Bein' a bloody Pirate! It was what I chose ta do!

M'sweetheart's name was Rose, and I'd given her my troth

But cast her out of muh 'eart and mind, was better for us both

Ta make the partin' sweeter, I give her a trinket or two

Put 'er out o' me mind ta find me fortune 'pon the Blue

No finer captain, far as killin', than Captain Edward Teach

We sailed on bellies full o' the rum 'pon the restless seas

Aye, they called 'im 'Black Beard' but 'is 'eart were black, as well

'E roared out orders with a voice that come from the bowels of 'ell

Don't know the years I'd been sailin' wi' ol' Teach an' 'is crew

When we spied a ship that 'peared ta be fully-loaded an' new

By then I was a wild thing, an' was nothin' too bad fer me

'At comes, o'course, wi' the kinda life we pirates live at sea

That day, it were me downfall, 'ard as it is ta believe

That I could sink e'en lower than when I was with Teach

But on that ship we plundered, I found mor'n a treasure there

I found a fresh and lovely lass wi' the prettiest auburn hair

Don't have ta tell ya what I did, since I'd been long ta sea

No mercy did she get, not from the dirty likes o' me

I ripped her locket off her throat, then sliced it ear-ta-ear

Threw her ta the sharks, I did, then drank me fill o' beer

Woke next dawn to the familiar sound o' the snorin' crew

Took muh leak overboard to raise the sea an inch or two

A moment later I found the bit I'd ripped off'n her poor neck

I admired it's fine engravin' while I stood there on the deck

I opened it up an' then stared, I did, at the lovely face

On the other side of the locket was the one I used ta shave

But the words engraved 'pon the case struck me as no other

In the finest hand was writ, 'Dear Father and Dear Mother'

So me request ta ye, I think that now ye'll fully understand

Soon as I be dead, would ye kindly remove me 'ands

Burn them with the trash, of the lowest ye can find

For what these bloody 'ands did, I lost me bloody mind

I've no wish ta go ta 'eaven, nor do I deserve ta see that place

No man 'as fallen lower'n I from God's Almighty's Grace

When I be dead and gone, ye gi' this ta muh dear Rose

Jus' say 'er daughter died at sea; would be best, don't ye suppose?

The pirate died and he was buried 'pon some common land

None marked his grave nor mourned, and he went ta Hell with his hands.

Update:

I knew I should'a Googled that pirate before I posted this. ha haha (TY, Soulful)

Update 2:

HH, the time & effort are hardly worth mentioning. It...didn't take very long to write. I stopped mid-way because I got bored with it. What's worse, I didn't bother reading about Edward Teach before I wrote this. Think of it this as...a COMMERCIAL between the real poems! ha ha ha ha Reckon I was the one doing the BSing - cause it's all just a made-up story!

Update 3:

Taghi, you are welcome; you asked, so I promised I'd give you a pirate story - even if me facts were overboard. LOL

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaa

    II cannot thank you enough my dear dear friend for giving us this incredible story. I was actually thinking to myself that when I can have one of your pirate diamonds and here I have it. Very nice and beautiful. You definitely know how to excite others.

    Thank you soooooooo much.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have to admit, this is an honest and many-hours full-effort-absorbing very good poem. What am I supposed to say, the friends before me said it all. And I, for one, will add one more observation: If I received this post from a true pirate, I would have known that is written by a woman, all right (just from the gracious touches here and there). A pirate woman now, is something you wish to encounter in the open seas. So sail my friend, sail away full force to encounter your captor.

  • doe
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Okay so now you know to get your facts straight missy. This may be a fictional poem but once it's in your book and all those kids and tale lovers are buying them up you need to be fictionally correct! See how helpful it is to try it here first! I loved this and I am very impressed with the way you do it. If it isn't a lot of work for you then it is truly your niche. I'd love to see you profit from it.

  • 1 decade ago

    No real pirate would confess any how, the scurvy cur was jellyfish back boned.

    The sea she is a moody lober, but tis fine day fer sailin.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You know that my opinions are those of an ars- I mean self-centered curmudgeon, so take that huge grain of salt right now.

    I think about all the effort and knowledge that has to go into writing something like this and I am appalled. To put all that work into a simple soap opera tale, I don't know what to say. It just seems to me a waste.

    But then maybe I do need to go out and buy a sense of humor.

    Still, I sacrificed the time to you to read it.

    Now go back and read CW and tell me who's bullshytting you.

  • 1 decade ago

    I love a good story. So...did he even know he HAD a daughter until that moment? God, what a gut-wrenching thing to discover. But what if that girl was just some thieving whore who had stolen it from his actual daughter? lol

    Nice write...

    ;)

    Soulful: So you have google, too? impressive.

    Harem...Why do you think I'm winking, dummy...that was a slam on your drool, this morning--sorry to see you lacked the brains to figure it out.

  • Luiza
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Nice poem!

    A pirate stole my heart once and refused to give it back to me...

    So now, wherever I go, a part of me is missing

    And there's nothing I can do!

    He went away and will return

    Only when he wants to!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    so happy I is that I ain't no History buff!!

    I know a good, I mean bad

    pirate when I seize one and

    a bawdy good poem as always from your loquacious mind

    ya got to know I love it when ya

    write like this!

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Great story BG with a sad ending, butts ye eps wach ye sows

    loved this gimme more....

  • 1 decade ago

    Absolutely fantastic BG, I read it through, out loud, with dialect and it's a way cool piece. Hugs for this one.

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