by Melisande Luna

Created on: May 21, 2007

Luna's Maritime Sorrow -

Deep in the doldrums where horses learn to swim
and currents sleep,

sails flap lifelessly while men turn to ravens.
These equatorial latitudes
shroud lassitude beneath

ships adrift on stuporous seas,
their hold cargo swiftly rotting
like corpses under groaning planks.

I've learned not to chart still waters,
the celestial guides me away;
I turn to Polaris, together we shrive
mariners gone to their graves.

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