for a first attempt at poetry, this is really good!

i like how though a poem, it tells a story and each character is different. i like that you have details about each different pirate, each different ship. it gives very good imagery and makes you want to know more.

however, i do think that the flow was off in certian places because of lines being too long or too short. exampe:

'He builds up the reefs to make up his forts
his flagship Imperial be where he holds his court'

i think that the second line has just one or two more syllables than needed and it throws odd the flow just a tad. theses are all throughout the piece so i wuold suggest maybe breaking lines at different points or something. i do realize that this would mess up the rhyming scheme though, so yea,

but that was really the only bad thing i saw in this. over all, it was really good =]