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[Seil]

JOURNEY

Teardrops fall onto dry skin –
Many have gone before.
Their meeting –
A fleeting
Part of history.

Raindrops fall onto dry bed rock –
Others have gone before.
Their meeting –
A fleeting
Part of history.

Dewdrops fall onto dry brown grass –
Like those that fell before.
Their meeting –
A fleeting
Part of history.

Each journey begins with that single drop –
A journey that never ends.
Rain that rolls down dry slopes –
Flows in a lemming rush –
Who’ve done it all before.

Ahead and beyond,
Across and around,
Drop becomes pool,
Pool becomes stream,
Stream becomes river,
River becomes sea,
Sea becomes cloud –
Which falls as drops.


David M Paterson October 1996


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[Seil]

"THE SINKING OF THE SCHOONER 'ISLANDER'"



Silently the schooner slipped beneath a satin sea,
Mains'l majestic on mahogany coloured mast.
Caulked catwalks cluttered, choked,
decks disappearing, doomed, despatched to Davy Jones.

Flotsam floating free and far,
Jetsam jettisoned in jewelled ocean
Hapless hands hang horizontally, horrified, helpless, hatless.
Cushions cast carelessly cruise casually, corklike, comfortless.

Water washes wistfully over winches
Flag flies forlornly, flapping in futility.
Bodies bobbing, bailing, bothered, bewildered, battling bravely.
Cumulo cloud coloured canvases crash on creaking crates.

Sheets stretched sternwards start snapping, shearing.
Lifeless limbs lie languidly, lost, leewards.
Pipes poke pointlessly to port.
Bubbles boiling, burst breathlessly, bleeding.

Destiny delineates direction, doubtless destruction and doom.
Events, expedience, energy, expire - exhaustion.
Aches, arthritis, ailments, allergies all abandoned.
Duties, deeds, deification, done - dehydrated, dehumanised.

Oil oozes out of overflowing orifices,
Openings outpour omnicoloured oceans of objects.
Old objections obviously overlooked.
Over exposed, overawed, overcome.

Cargoes - coconuts, cashew, calabash, cane,
Contents consigned, cash crops.
Collected, converted, collated, condemned.
Cow-cake for Sea-cows, crustaceans.

Baskets, brica-brac, bundles, breadfruit,
Bananas, baccy, backchat all gone.
Backers, brokers, bankrupt.
Business beheaded.

Sinking, sadly, solemnly, surely.
Sighs - shipmates signals
Salt soured saliva sickens.
Sinister shadows slink sideways.

Fins flash, frenzied forays.
Fangs filter fearful forms.
Flesh falls, feather-light.
Finished, fatal, final.

(END)

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