When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten, I’ll buy a boat and sail away upon a summer sea; And in a little lonely isle that’s far and far from men, In peace and praise I’ll spend the days the Gods allow to me. For I am weary of a strife […]
Wind whines and whines the shingle, The crazy pierstakes groan; A senile sea numbers each single Slimesilvered stone. From whining wind and colder Grey sea I wrap him warm And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder And boyish arm. Around us fear, descending Darkness of fear above And in my heart how deep unending Ache of […]
When grey clouds fill the sky And the tides are so high Oh! Damsel don’t cry Don’t bid me bye! Bye! When the sea is so calm And the sunshine so warm Let’s join in the mood Come on make me feel good Remember I vowed to be with you always Like the trees in […]
Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, […]
From pulpit’s ship he preached in scrimshaw days And belted out a prayer of hope and praise The seamen clung to every fervid phrase Then left New Bedford’s dock in morning haze It was the eve of his first bounty search A young lad prayed in Seaman’s Bethel Church And as he left he saw […]
This is a ballad for the good times So put a battery in your leg Put a rock beat over anything Get it stuck there in your head You can be with me I got nothing to rely on I’ve broken every bone Everybody’s stop believing But you know you’re not alone You can be […]
When he left he swore never to return. that was the first youthful lesson he was to learn. A true adult speaks lightly of absolutes, they often come back to haunt. Besides, age provides enough of that quite on its own, alone. He saw many dusty roads, I’m sure of that, as he and Leroy […]
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Carl Sandburg
Fog it grabs you and strangles you till you die. fog is alot like you.you wait till the right moment and then kill, kill, kill. Fog you cant see throw it and is the best way to kill. you walk in the fog kill me and run. run to save yourself and to tell the […]
Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines! I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with these jasmines, these white jasmines. I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth; I have heard the liquid murmur of the river through the darkness of midnight; Autumn sunsets have come to me […]