Doug Blair ADMIN II
CCW GOLD MEMBER POETRY CONTEST WINNER Posts : 644 Age : 73 Join date : 2013-02-03 Location : Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
| Subject: Boy's Book Travels Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:34 am | |
| Boy's Book Travels
To read again
And nothing stirs
But Spot down
At my feet.
It’s late and still
This racking cough.
The lights now
Spot our street.
But I am gone
No patient I
But crew-man
Out to sea
With Silver slick
And “Jim-me-boy”
And paradise for free.
And jungle trails
And buried loot
As blood boils
Maddeningly.
Now ”look alive”
And “trim the sheets”
And “tow your line
Old chaps”.
A bed my sloop
A night sky thrills
A dog first-mate perhaps.
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