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poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10

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0 posted 2006-06-18 07:20 AM

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Four Days to the Wind
18 June 2006

As if debt was a passage of fate
this journey with pain inside
A hunger ripping, torn upside down
the depth of an ocean, the Titanic within a heart

Upon a coastline of Halifax
terror cast adrift on seas of ice
Unsinkable, a notion of kind
who said possible was impossible

Starving for credibility, living for hope to proclaim
This death, of sinking, far down below
would there ever be an end to summer

Another day captured, lifeboats to surrender
a painted sea, upon an ocean of dreams
Vivid colours, this watery grave
God save them all, as that lamp goes out

Royal Mail Ship (or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used
of any seagoing vessel that carries mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. Having the
title RMS was seen as a mark of quality and a competitive advantage, because the mail had
to be on time. The best-known ship carrying the prefix is almost certainly the RMS Titanic of
the White Star Line.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg and
dramatic sinking in 1912. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff
shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Titanic was the largest passenger
steamship in the world at the time of her sinking. During Titanic’s maiden voyage (from
Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York),
she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship’s time) on Sunday evening 14 April 1912, broke into
two pieces, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.

A total of 328 bodies were eventually recovered. Many of the bodies were taken to Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada, where the majority of the unclaimed were buried in Fairview Cemetery
in Halifax.

© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares

POET's Note: This works is entiltled "Four Days to the Wind", because it was
completed in writing from what began four days from start to finish in composing.

Frank W. Torres
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