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White Knuckles
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
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Her Mystery Remains
books
movies
Broadway musicals

A pocket watch
hints at the timelessness
of her demise

White Knuckles
gripping guardrails
on a still moonless
night

Sheet Music
spitoons
leather satchels
bracelets
buttons

Aged Queen 
draped with ribbons
of rust
a floating metaphor
'she goes down'

Sip Champagne
from crystal
feast on her oysters
and roast squab
her bed's gleaming
Queen Anne footboard

Her Violin
played to the end
bedsprings
table linens
chamber pots
unopened ale
postcards wafted down

Cork in place
champagne bottle
never knew a toast

A grenadier fish
eyes a china cup
bearing the
White Star Line emblem

Rust drips
like candle wax
her story endures
for reasons as
complex as human
nature

A cautionary tale
of human arrogance
subplots of cowardice
courage
heartbreak
and romance

"Iceberg right ahead!"
she lost her maiden voyage
in 1912 suffering a 300-foot
gash in her starboard side
opened her up to massive
flooding

Death of a Queen
she went down
her salvage and
ressurection is as
dramatic as her life

Titanic's
tempestuous afterlife.

Honoring Those
who died aboard the
Titanic
asking that the ship
be left in peace.


 

Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist, brainchild of Sage Sweetwater Creative Properties, flagship of Stone Creek Woman














 

 



 
    

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 Reviews of "White Knuckles"
Reviewed by Chrissy McVay
Reviewed on February 21, 2006
Yes, this is excellent...and she should rest in peace.

Reviewed by Joyce Hale
Reviewed on February 21, 2006
Stunning, visual! An excellent write, Sagae.

Peace.

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
this is much better than the movie ;)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
We will always be fascinated about what happened that night.
Good write.

Reviewed on February 20, 2006
There are so many feelings. memories and relation to a piece as such. The titanic strikes me because it is one of my favorite songs as a matter of fact I am known for singing this in karaoke for some time now. This poem expreses a woman to the depths, character, personality, empowerment, strength, seduction and so many more traits that can be recognized in this variety of excellent expression.

Reviewed by Suzie Palmer
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
Dear Sage
This is an expertly unique account of this tragic affair!!
Well done Queen of Diversity!
Love & Respect Suzie xox :-)

Reviewed on February 20, 2006
Sage,

Creative, sparse verse evokes memories of terror on a cold night in the Atlantic...very, very well done.

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

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
In your unique way you tell the sad story of the ill fated ship that too many pompous men thought was invincible! Beautifully done Sage! Kudo's!

Eileen

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
I swear for the first few verses of this poem I was thinking about Molly Brown, the survivor of that night and the not so illustrous new addition to Denver society. She survived them both, however. what a wonderful and unortadox way of telling the story.

Reviewed by Peter Paton
Reviewed on February 20, 2006
A novel and intrepid tribute to those who perished in the Titanic disaster, coupled with a plea to leave the deceased resting in peace !
This is a powerful and impassioned narrative which strikes a chord
with the moral majority I would imagine Sage !
Peter


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