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Becalmed...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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...from another time, another place, another life...


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Sails unfurled,

Not even a flap,

Betwixt winds,

In a gap…

 

Crew lax on deck,

Getting a tan,

The captain does fret,

Drifting in the current,

He doesn’t want to wreck…

 

Stuck in sargassum doldrums,

Praying for a breeze,

Just a small, from the north, sneeze,

Dear lord, morale low,

Grant unto us this, I beseech thee please…

 

© ed ~~~ 1/30/09


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 Reviews of "Becalmed..."
Reviewed by Bonnie May
Reviewed on January 31, 2009
Hey you really found you niche..this is great. Love and hugs, Bonnie

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on January 31, 2009
The days of tall ships and the men that crewed them were not the glory and wonderful images all too often portrayed in the movies and in most books about the period. There was the ravages of terrible weather, food that was often rotten and filled with maggots, trips could last up to two to three years and illness and disease killed more than shipwrecks did. Great capture.

Fee

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on January 31, 2009
I'm sendin a big flock of flappin pigeons your way - watch for the breeze from their wings, but don't look up!

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on January 31, 2009
Those that said that the Sargassos Seas doesn't exist...think again!
Twice with ships tankers going between Venezuela's Punta Cardon and Canada's Quebec Oil Terminal we have hit on foggy nights that damned seaweed patches that clogged our cooling sea water intakes, and that's no fun for the engineers or anybody else.

Georg


Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on January 31, 2009
nicely done

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 30, 2009
Very nice Ed! reminds me of when my brother was a merchant seaman.
Ah the storied he told and the treasues he brought home,I still have some.

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce
Reviewed on January 30, 2009
Not of your usual style, but this is well written! Thank you for sharing!!!

Sandie Angel :o)

Reviewed on January 30, 2009
An excellent write, Ed - well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on January 30, 2009
i love the feel of this-calm--just as the title says


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