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Astride the gale
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Astride the gale Ease the sheets in the big puffs, let her round up a bit, even luff, the scream of the gale in the leech Sailin', standin', hard on her ear. Barefoot for grip on the deck heeled alee Bow burrowed through cold seas Then up through the smoking crest Spillin green, black water and froth To port and to larboard abreast And burst out and up through to black boiled clouds Grasp hard your ship, pull yourself back to As the bow plunges down, the stern deck heaves to the sky To slam down in the trough wild and begin the next climb anew Stand to and let legs take the next pound, the next shock Head thrown aback and madness deep laughter too Torn away and carried voiceless on the roar, Ripped from throat and unheard by all, even you Laughter and breath sucked from your breast The exult on the beast of the tempest No riders this trip. Stand to the deck Like standin the back of the gale itself. Wet, to runnin between your two cheeks Waves standing tall in the shoaling reach Harbor on the lee bow and safety I seek Crashing tumult approaching the beach Boarding hard, head pressed up To breathe, to bite mouthfulls of air 'twixt the seas, Air tack hard on the back of the gale. Seas breakin', tumbling, crashing astern As through the breakwall I pass Home from the deeps and anchored in lees Scoped out long with my bow to the seas Its here I shall wait Its here I shall make Its here I shall mend Its here I shall rest and salve Tend to the stores and tend to the sore Healing and let the storms pass For soon with some luck,I'll hove to stays short And in sun and a breeze I'll set out once more Upon the blue and the lustrous, the deep. My nigh grown and nigh is my time By myself I wish no longer to sleep To shake and to cast my life, like the die Upon the blue and the lustrous, the deep. Dean  |
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1/11/2007 10:17 pm |
I got that same pic on my computer. I think it came with the OS.  Nice bit of writing, BTW
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1/12/2007 8:45 am |
ha ha - the meachines really HAVE taken over. we are all being recast in their image  and sincerely - that was a good piece of writing
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*smiles*...one can almost feel the spray and hear the roar of such a tempest...thank you *hugs*
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1/15/2007 5:22 pm |
That floated my boat Dean. Well done.
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I should like to comment on this one myself. I hope that is okay. I have been torn between polishing and not polishing this piece. I can see or feel a hundred defects that I would like to spend time and change. This learning process is sometimes challenging and humbling. Sometimes? Heck, all the time! One of the things that I like, and why I posted it now, is some of the rawness, lack of rhyme, choppy rhythms,,, just felt right. These really messy, fun, scary sails are anything but smooth. So I may at sometime rework this with skills I am still learning, with better, smoother effects/tools,,, but I am not sure that tech improvements will better the piece. It was difficult and fun to try and allow messy to be told messy. And I need to confess, the last stanza does not belong here. It was a cop out. The last stanza is too fresh right now, painful. I lack perspective right now. Dean
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