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Open Poetry #13

The Mistress

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

0 posted 2001-05-10 10:28 PM

The Mistress

From across the bay
He could just make out
The surf and the shore
Giggling.
He could hear the bells
As they told out loud
Of his soon to be tinkling
Decency.
He thought of his child,
Of his wife, of their kin,
Yet the errant swell
Rose under him.
Then the ports flew up
And the guns ran out
And he fondled the thought
Of the magazine, as
FIRE!
FIRE!
FIRE!
Burst out
When the love of his life
Roared out of him.

RMW

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

1 posted 2001-05-10 10:38 PM

Very interesting, Robere...

*Chuckles*
~Tier

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2001-05-11 12:54 PM

I didn't understand the part about the magazine?

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

3 posted 2001-05-11 01:10 AM

Tier..thank you. Bob

Irish Rose...the magazine is where the powder for the guns would have been kept. Thank you for reading. Bob

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

4 posted 2001-05-11 09:15 AM

Such an old world feel...I would really like to see you stretch a bit, Sir, and expound on a seaman's life, using the language of the early to mid 1800's....

I think it is a challenge well worthy of your pen.

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

5 posted 2001-05-11 03:54 PM

So much poignancy in this, Bob.

Cor

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

6 posted 2001-05-11 04:45 PM

hm...I took this poem in many ways...I guess it depends where our mind is when reading it

~Softsmile
~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

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