One More Poem

[Kingetter]

Anover 1 wot I writ when i wuz riting!


THE SINKING OF THE SCHOONER 'ISLANDER'

Silently the schooner slipped beneath a satin sea,
Mains'l majestic on mahogany coloured mast.
Caulked catwalks cluttered, choked,
Decks disappearing, doomed, despatched to Davy Jones.
Flotsam floating free and far,
Jetsam jettisoned in jewelled ocean
Hapless hands hang horizontally, horrified, helpless, hatless.
Cushions cast carelessly cruise casually, corklike, comfortless.
Water washes wistfully over winches
Flag flies forlornly, flapping in futility.
Bodies bobbing, bailing, bothered, bewildered, battling bravely.
Cumulo cloud coloured canvases crash on creaking crates.
Sheets stretched sternwards start snapping, shearing.
Lifeless limbs lie languidly, lost, leewards.
Pipes poke pointlessly to port.
Bubbles boiling, burst breathlessly, bleeding.
Destiny delineates direction, doubtless destruction and doom.
Events, expedience, energy, expire - exhaustion.
Aches, arthritis, ailments, allergies all abandoned.
Duties, deeds, deification, done - dehydrated, dehumanised.
Oil oozes out of overflowing orifices,
Openings outpour omnicoloured oceans of objects.
Old objections obviously overlooked.
Over exposed, overawed, overcome.
Cargoes - coconuts, cashew, calabash, cane,
Contents consigned, cash crops.
Collected, converted, collated, condemned.
Cow-cake for Sea-cows, crustaceans.
Baskets, brica-brac, bundles, breadfruit,
Bananas, baccy, backchat all gone.
Backers, brokers, bankrupt.
Business beheaded.

Sinking, sadly, solemnly, surely.
Sighs - shipmates signals
Salt soured saliva sickens.
Sinister shadows slink sideways.
Fins flash, frenzied forays.
Fangs filter fearful forms.
Flesh falls, feather-light.
Finished, fatal, final.

James.

[katarina]

Poetry isn't my genre, but I felt that was Pretty powerful! Well done!
Maybe we should start a writers board for all the aspirers. Ot maybe we should call ourselves the orgspirers?

[Kingetter]

Thanks Katarina. It was hard work producing it - done for a competition - but a great sense of achievement when completed. Yes, 'a writers board for all the aspirers' sounds good to me - just as there's a photography one etc.
I appreciate not everyone is into poetry, yourself included but a Literature Board should be of interest to those on here who read and I'm led to believe there are a number who do.

[badger]

Another one to cut out and keep to be read again and again. Good idea to have section for writers, there's obviously a lot of talent on the org.

[Kingetter]

I'd be flattered if you did that. Muse about it while mowing your lawn maybe?

[badger]

I'd be flattered if you did that. Muse about it while mowing your lawn maybe?

I'd need to learn it for that and think it might be a hard one to remember, 'specially these days. I can still recite nearly everything I learnt when young but find it almost impossible to learn by heart these days. Sigh ... Besides, what would the horses think if I started spouting poetry in the garden?

[Kingetter]

They'd use 'horse sense' and work it out?

[katarina]

I also love horses! It's been years since we owned them. But I am so nostalgic.

[Kingetter]

I also love horses! It's been years since we owned them. But I am so nostalgic.

And they'd be seahorses? lol

[Lolabelle]

I also love horses! It's been years since we owned them. But I am so nostalgic.
Me too, love horses that is, haven't had one for a few years now, :( but I'm hopeless at reciting poetry. Never can remember the whole lot of anything. I get halfway through a song and start singing "moth, moth, moth" to the tune. Dave & I drove a friend out to Bourke, 12hours or so, and we sang the first line of every song that any of us had ever knew. Was a great trip. We laughed our heads off, and the time seemed to just fly.;)

[Kingetter]

Reciting poetry (not reading it aloud from a book) isn't easy for many people - you aren't alone. More important to try and get into the writers mind so you can sense the way he/she feels about the topic - their perspective.
Memorising isn't absolutely necessary for most of us.

[badger]

Reciting poetry (not reading it aloud from a book) isn't easy for many people - you aren't alone. More important to try and get into the writers mind so you can sense the way he/she feels about the topic - their perspective.
Memorising isn't absolutely necessary for most of us.

Quite - only if you're mowing the lawn.

[Kingetter]

"only if you're mowing the lawn"

And neighbours thinking you're talking to yourself (again?).