The sun and seas a jolly cast?

By Mark Heathcote

Thu, 21 Jun 2012
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The sun and seas a jolly cast
As is the sail tied to the mast
And those laggards anchored
Without a future or a past…

Who are they to sink then?
To the bottom of a glass
Without the lowly courage
To weigh anchor, outclass…

Them that is first and last
The oceans fleet of stars.
Who are they to sink then?
Lower than the rank of Czars.

…Should, they not sail the seas
That storm and rage.
Hold—strait the tiller, helmsman
Waves beat my breast a sage!

“God be their maiden-voyage
All in him find harbor.
Set sail loathsome, wreckage!
Oar thy soul to him thy savior”.

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Spiritual

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on
This is wonderful Mark, I could almost hear some pirates singing this, as they work upon the deck. Sorry I'm getting a bit carried away, but this is definitely one of my favourites. Just have a thing for poems of the sea. Very much enjoyed. Jenny.

 

Submitted by Mark Heathcote on
Thanks Jennifer & Parson, I wrote the first 2 lines in this poem 3 months ago getting off a bus in Piccadilly, and came across them again today in my scrap book. It’s funny what quirky words or lines tell us this could be a poem. :) Might have one small nip from the flask though! lol

Mark Heathcote