Black sail
On the horizon
A sign of pure freedom
A life I used to belong to
Pirate
Locket
Lost memories
A cold chain around your neck
Just traces of your long lost best friend
Sadness
Stranded
Purely marooned
Sun hot on my burnt face
No food, nor rum to comfort me
Dying
The Cinqain, Long Lost Pirate, is about a pirate who has been marooned on a deserted island while an old enemy is sailing away on his ship. His only possessions are his clothes-including his bandana and boots- and a mysterious golden locket. He is dying and was spared no rum at all! There is no real theme to this poem I guess; it just wants you to realize how much a ship, the seas and your possessions (and rum) would mean to you if you were a pirate. See the world, traditions, and codes of a true pirate life and know the spirit and beliefs a pirate feels and realize how heartless they can be even to their own kind!!! This poem IS NOT necessarily to do with pirates of the Caribbean apart from the first one but there could be another completely different Black Pearl in the universe somewhere!! So just use your imagination and forget about the movie for now. It doesn’t have many (if any) poetic techniques in it because pirates didn’t have very much education and they certainly wouldn’t learn about ‘them’.
