I intend to read this out at a folk song/poetry evening. Any thoughts?
VOYAGE
The benediction was a joke: men grinned
As priests waved incense, and the roaring crowd
Sent our white ship sliding under the wind
Down into the grey harbour, groaning loud.
A cackling rage of gulls flew round the stern,
As each man stooped, encumbered with his chore;
The stench of brine and tar like sulphur's burn
Coated the figurehead of painted whore.
The land-line dwindled, died beneath the sea,
Horizon's rim surrounded all our world;
Black water pitched us, sickening, to flee
Before the singing winds from sirens hurled.
In passion's grip we reeled through Satan's gates
As if a malediction well rehearsed
Or if a trap set by the drunken fates
Made each day fall the same, our voyage cursed.
This is very, very good. People are right, it doesn't seem to finish, it needs tying in a knot at the end.
A great little poem, reminded me of Ezra Pound, God bless his mad soul.
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