"Tall Ships..." PoemA Poem by ChrisA friend asked me to write about "Tall Ships". I'm sure he wasn't thinking it would stump me in ANY way. I've wandered the decks of many of them - "Tall Ships" in many ports AND on several continents. The USS Constellation an AWESOME example of its time and the 'fighting trim' of our Navy. Home ported for display at Baltimore Maryland - its open to the public for walking and remembering.
You ever seen a REAL "Tall Ship"? and groans of a tired soul - settling somehow, somewhere - just out of sight but not out of hearing - and not always as old as you'd think.
...And the masts thrusting skyward - So very, very tall, and the smaller you are - the taller THEY are, bigger than life somehow, strong and seemingly invincible, ageless, sometimes bare and stark the visible scars from untold, unknown moments marking them - marring them, personalizing them with a realness, as if painted across the sky unmoving immutable beautiful and seeming so impervious to the vagaries of time or of ANY 'wind' there could ever be... bearing an impossible load they actually curve, somehow bend - and I THINK of the majesty that something so PHYSICALLY imposing can somehow find that EXTRA strength within to give that lil bit more, that lil bit necessary to keep from shattering - from splintering under the stress of doing what they - afterall - MUST.
I never knew my dad, wished I did he WAS my tall ship and like me and so many others he foundered during the storms and vanished in the seamless sea...
You know?
I don't hate tears, or fear them - mine or anyone else's ~ and yes I well up at times and so do you. Our emotions are real and strong and important to share - because they are US - an integral part OF us, as we are without masks or guile. Sometimes tears are our de-fence to a self-perceived uncaring world and as we let them out we open ourselves and BREAK the damn walls that kept us so far away from what we really wanted... company along our way.
© 2012 ChrisAuthor's Note
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