Picaroon

Comes a ship stem and stern
Sails bellow, windswept churn
Jolly Rogers flew high
Eager to plunder passerby

Animated bones, zombie ash
Deadly as cat o’ nine tail lash
Swashbucklers on spectral craft
Accursed upon a timeworn raft

Carnage afloat in a wake
Vultures circle along a break
Picking at scraps of carrion
Fodder of pirate barbarian

Bartering barnacles abed
Scavengers of undead
Waters of a brackish tide
Redemption for savages denied

Mariners forewarn beware
Pirate’s perilous snare
For if by chance board a ship
Crew be booty for marauder clip