Merchant on the Seas Part Two

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Open Poetry #35

Merchant on the Seas Part Two

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2005-03-15 04:08 PM

As the morning tide carries me
Eastward into the waking sea
The sky view is of deepest red,
It is Mother Earth’s way to warn
Of her wrath in approaching storm,
I turn my rudder south instead
Of Sailing in coming gale winds,
To be delayed as my path bends
Further from the joys of her bed.

I think of her keeping my home
As I sail this ocean alone
Keeping taunt on every line
Lashing down my heart and rudder
As waves beat my ship does shutter,
I retrace her face with my mind
As if with callus fingertips
Dream of sweet kissing her soft lips
When next in loving arms I find.

I storming last throughout the day,
Taking me far out of my way,
Calming with the passing of light,
Clouds remain drifting in the air
Blocking my sextants telling stare,
I head back eastward in the night
With only the compass to guide
So I sleep as the stars still hide,
Waking when at last the sun’s bright.

The course is far from planned journey
Yet I weathered the storm at sea,
The delay won’t be to great hopefully.

To be continued …

Gloom

Previously in this series

Dreams of a Lady

to Merchant on the Seas Part One

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2005-03-15 05:58 PM

"I dream of sweet kissing her lips."...enjoyed...James

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2005-03-15 06:45 PM

Gloom, enjoyed the poem, could almost feel
the seas and weather...liked the words about
the sextant's glare...does, doesn't it?

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

3 posted 2005-03-15 09:04 PM

"I retrace her face with my mind"

that is a wonderful thought.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

A Romantic Heart
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

4 posted 2005-03-16 06:44 AM

~very tight,
descriptive, full of happy thoughts,

~Great Job
~ARh

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to

[This message has been edited by A Romantic Heart (03-16-2005 08:33 AM).]

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