Here are the winning 4 poems! These children were then group leaders and taught the rest of the class their poems!
The Dazzling Ship by Melodie Tooke-Thompson
Do you ever go to sea
On a dazzling ship?
Ah! A greenhorn I see
There’s no time for a dip
Scrub the deck and raise the sail
There’s no rest for the wicked
Don’t stop or you will fail
We’ll lose you in the thicket
The Homesick Pirate by Milah Sharp
There was a homesick pirate
Her name was Mimi Moo
She wished to be upon the Roger
With all the other crew
I don’t know why, I guess she thought
It would be kind of cool
To be the greatest greenhorn
In the entire school
But now she hates pirates
And she always will
Because she has the black spot
All because of that snitch Bill
Now she haunts the Jolly Roger
As a ghastly ghost
Making people scream
She’s scarier than most
And now I will linger in the memory of your mind…
The Angry Pirate by Conner Turner
Have you ever been a sailin’
Across the deep-black sea?
The new recruits are ailin’
They’re all afraid of me
Searchin’ my sea for plunder
I’ve searched everywhere
As ships try to flee from me
Just hear my cannon flare
We prey upon unlucky fools
Running from the death-defying spot
We threaten other ships that sail
As my ships begins to rot
Until they catch and hang me
From the haunted gallows tree
Another and another greenhorns disappear…
Edward Teach by Alfie Crabb
There lived an evil pirate
His name was Edward Teach
He wished to go aboard a ship
And make some sailors screech
The crew happily welcomed him
And called him their lord
In fact they even were prepared
To fall upon the sword
After many years at sea
Edward became more feared
To sailors all around the world
With his nickname of Blackbeard
The crew told stories to greenhorns
About Blackbeard’s short life
Getting beheaded for his deeds
And about the after life…