Thanks, Trish, for a lovely tribute that pacifies, fortifies and trusts, amid the tempestuous times that we QLers have just experienced.Hey emerald-eyed-loony-Leo-Trishhy-Trishhy gurl!
Triolet, it’s been sometime no? Geelad to see another one o’ them in here (anywhere), and by one of my fave poets too.
Technically glib! Your word-choices are very apposite to the theme (wat'ry graves, crew, Clipper etc. The S.S. had me confused a moment, then I figured that’s the name of our 'ship', like
S.S. Vaterland etc.).
How could its heart ever be quelled as long as there’s a Trisssshhhyyy? Three cheers to you, hip-hip-hop-hop-happy-happy-hurray!
Unchartered drifts the tempest paves,-my fave line, along with the phrasing wat’ry graves, new visions welling in dreams, our Clipper fair… well the whole thing
Reading you is reading hope. Hopefully you also have someone that gives you the same.
lostpilgrim:
I am plagued by second thoughts with every comment and poem that I post-me, too. I am embarrassed because of several of my replies and previous works. I do not hit the delete button however because it does not speak to accountability. It causes tons of confusion too, when someone has read your post and the next time 'round finds it missing. That said, my dear sweet-shy soul, we do not eat up people alive, so you do not have to fear (besides, we ADORE you!).
luvleetasha: "troubador", that was new to me, and fittingly conferred
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one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love - acc. to merriam-webstar online dic
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"My mother and father desired a child and they begot me.
And I wanted a mother and a father and I begot night and the sea."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Sand and foam"
