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OLIAS
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0 posted 2013-02-13 04:07 PM



Siren (sonnet)

Thee I desire, oh hapless mariner,
to pluck thee from those pitching decks, awash,
Your anguished soul I make my prisoner,
with melodies that stirred Odysseus.

My coral fingers rake thy sodden bone,
to sing thy blue tongued swelling epitaph.
Thy body offered up to me alone,
and I to thee thy only sweet distaff.

Oh feel my flotsam heart entwining thee,
'Til sated by addictions deep desire,
the power have I to set your body free,
then cast away your soul to Hades fire.

So in these arms beloved, lay with me,
Oh, salt my mouth with breathless ecstasy.


Is this heaven?

shoeless Joe Jackson.

© Copyright 2013 Mick Yates - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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1 posted 2013-02-13 05:24 PM


Aye, the siren of the deep and troubled water hast cast many a mariner into the salty brine. Enjoyed this well constructed sonnet . . .

~*~ Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.― Franz Kafka ~*~

Victoria
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2 posted 2013-02-13 05:40 PM


The sea is the sailers mistress isnt't it. I really enjoyed your sonnet Olias. Nicely done as always.

~Victoria

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius

katahdin
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3 posted 2013-02-13 07:43 PM


Loved your sonnet!
Kat >^..^<

OLIAS
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Pearl city Iowa
4 posted 2013-02-13 09:11 PM


Thank you for your kind comments Jerrypat,Victoria and Kat they are much appreciated. I submitted this post in 2001 In another form, always intending to develope it into a sonnet , procrastination is my middle name I guess. Thank you all once again and take care.
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