Centuries guarding…
Wild stories, scary legends
…old and crusty whalers,

Long closeted skeletons,
And a pirate’s past
So full of shipwrecked

Ghost-sailors
Frightfully fluttering
Like salt-caked seagulls

Crying mournfully for bait
While a wicked wind scours
Those ancient stormy skies

Debora Short

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/found-bobbing-on-a-calmed-atlantic-sea/