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Sonnet: All at Sea

Posted on 2023-03-16 by Cologero

by James Lawrence

All at Sea

Night is at its nadir and the moon-scythe’s light
Gets mocked to dizziness in the drunken sea;
The tomb of fish-shoals spittles up its spite,
And glimmering squid-hordes dream and breed in me.

Hail has hammered me in my open cot,
And freezing ice-floes fettered me to standstill;
And the sink of rivers, swelling as it rots,
Spreads out more wave-halls long before my land-sill.

Still I’ll not despire to no mermaid’s rock;
I plot one hundred paths to my beloved;
But her liquid heart sits hard behind its lock;
I pitch, and toss, one hundred tries rebuffèd.

The sun-brand swelters, and the salt-sick main
Mists up, distills this whispering refrain.

One thought on “Sonnet: All at Sea”

Mike M on 2023-03-24 at 12:04 said:

Beautiful imagery and metaphor as well as the reading itself.

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Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre

All at Sea

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