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Array ( [sid] => 13 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Sonnet To A Safe Passage [time] => 2002-07-10 15:28:40 [hometext] => Sonnet To A Safe Passage [bodytext] => The crashing waves pitched schooner steep on side,
and valiant lady fain did make self right.
With tattered sails that stole her former pride,
avast - against the seas her mighty fight!
A shrieking hurrican with madness wails,
and sailors high in rigging reef the sheets.
With struggle mate mans wheel whose chore entails:
to keep GulfQueen from shoals where river meets.
There shining bright through raging rain and night,
a beacon light with message straight and bold:
"The shoals are close to me beneath this site,
beware of hurtful shale that seeks to hold."
Thus faithful sentry saves ship - twenty lives.
Returns men safe again to thankful wives.
[comments] => 9 [counter] => 571 [topic] => 21 [informant] => ramfire [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )

Sonnet To A Safe Passage

Contributed by ramfire on Wednesday, 10th July 2002 @ 03:28:40 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

The crashing waves pitched schooner steep on side,
and valiant lady fain did make self right.
With tattered sails that stole her former pride,
avast - against the seas her mighty fight!
A shrieking hurrican with madness wails,
and sailors high in rigging reef the sheets.
With struggle mate mans wheel whose chore entails:
to keep GulfQueen from shoals where river meets.
There shining bright through raging rain and night,
a beacon light with message straight and bold:
"The shoals are close to me beneath this site,
beware of hurtful shale that seeks to hold."
Thus faithful sentry saves ship - twenty lives.
Returns men safe again to thankful wives.

Copyright © ramfire ... [ 2002-07-10 15:28:40]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Chrissie on Thursday, 11th July 2002 @ 12:14:42 AM AEST
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Hi Laurie, this is as excellent as ever. The imagery is powerful...I could see the sights and hear the sounds.
Chrissie x

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Terry_Stephen_Driscoll on Saturday, 13th July 2002 @ 05:39:20 AM AEST
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I could taste the salt on my lips as I read this Laurie. It could easily sit along side a painting I'm particularly fond of By Turner - one of my favourite subjects for sure - slotting perfectly into sonnet form.
Best regards Terry

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Mya on Monday, 2nd December 2002 @ 07:22:50 PM AEST
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Nice poem

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Ramfire on Monday, 2nd December 2002 @ 08:51:08 PM AEST
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Thank you for your kind words and good score. I hope I can write something else you'll like.
Regards,
Ramfire

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by POETRY_AND_LOVE_BUG on Saturday, 7th December 2002 @ 02:49:04 PM AEST
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~very good you got a talent
take advantage of it~
~britteny~

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Ramfire on Saturday, 7th December 2002 @ 10:56:05 PM AEST
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Thank you for your kind words and good score. Maybe I can write something else you'll like.
Regards,
Ramfire

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by Kindredblood_dragon on Saturday, 5th April 2003 @ 07:59:33 PM AEST
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The feel of the sea raging, of the terror from the sailors trying to get home, Very well done.

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by norm on Monday, 7th July 2003 @ 11:37:07 AM AEST
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If you wish to learn who did the write
To learn the poet and learn their site,
You read the poem they entered first,
and see if it's the daily worst.

This is great, a schooner yet,
With twenty lives saved for pet,
I must read more of this fine soul
That's my aim and that's my goal...

Re: Sonnet To A Safe Passage (User Rating: 1 )
by trenikia on Wednesday, 16th February 2005 @ 01:10:46 PM AEST
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this is good

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