Poems

Life and Death

Note that most of the poems here are taken from my membership days as a poet at the PoetryBoard. It was a chatboard where we converse in poetry and hiakus. It was a real challenge because some of the members were really good. I've tried to put a name to the poems although there were many that I couldn't remember. Most do not have titles, as like I've said, they were our conversations and conversations do not come with titles. I've tried giving them one but still some are better without. : ) See if you can guess which ones were written by me.

Left to die
on a South China Sea beach
The old ship's beam protruded from the sand
Tides would tease it with freedom
Lapping it's boards with salty brine
...only to dash it's hopes as the waters ebbed

Year after year, it's anguish went on
seeking it's refuge upon the great sea
...yet dying a slow death in it's desertion

I returned a few years ago
Never thought I would

The old ship was my first thought
It represented the same struggles I had bore

But it was gone

...and I, alone, to recall it.