See Bio: 'Dreaming
Dreaming'
A landlubber I am,
Am I forever to be
I hope and pray it not be so,
For I'd love to go to sea,
Sail upon the stormy waves,
Hear their ceaseless din,
Visit far-off storied ports,
Made famous by romance and sin.
Oh!, How I hope my dream will last,
'cause my Gran-Pa told me, his old Dad.
Spent many years before the mast.
So, I sit now in my lazy chair,
To ponder and to dream.
I follow the smoke from my cheroot,
Float up to the yonder beam.
I envision myself in the foc'sle,
or near the helmsman aft.
Listening, to the sighing winds,
As through the sails they waft:
f.m. Faber; Circa 1969
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Submitted by WerterBuch on August 29, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 1 |
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