Call to Sail

Push out to sea

Waves, wrestling...

Oars, beating...

Winds, singing...

Push out to sea

Oceans, settling...

Nights, glimmering...

Whales, whispering...

Push out to sea

With a polly on yer shoulder

and yer mateys in yer corner...

Past the swooping seagulls screaming...

Push out to sea

Past the sandy shallows

off of Stoney Beach Shore...

Some thousands of leagues 

past the equater... 

Some thousands of leagues, 

perhaps more...

Push out to sea

Where the weather tests yer measure

and the ocean's open desert...

Where the darkness is synonomous with the deep...

Push out to sea

Over the swells of your imagination...

Billowed taut with expectations 

for the places she's yet to go... 

The Watery Maiden's calling you home...

Push out to sea

And remembering the poems

that you're never letting go of

(grizzled some, and guzzling grog)

you're standing at your window

and (brandishing your thimble)

shouting in slurred, syllabic song:

Ye Capitans!  Ye Crewmen!

Ye scallywags!  Ye swabs!

Ye bilge-rats!  Ye brave lads!

Me hearties!  Yar-har!

Batton down hatches...!

Push out to sea

Lash down the mizzen...!

Push out to sea

Hornswaggle hemp halters...!

Push out to sea

Brave sailors salute...! 

Brave crewmen we sing...!

Brave sailors we...!

Push out to sea

Assemble the men...!  

Adventure begins...!

Brave sailors we...!  

Push out to sea

We sailors we...!

Push out to sea

Brave sailors we...! 

Push out to sea

Give way the oars...!

We're climbing aboard...!

We sailors we...! 

Push out to sea

We sailors we...!

Push out to sea

Author's Note

Revision of an earlier thought. hope to make it a musical one day wink nod and smile.

Reviews

[Taylor]

As I've said before, I know little about poetry so can only react for what that's worth. So, I like this, especially the first half. It seems to me that the tone changes when you turn to "ye captains, etc...." Yes, I see that you use "yer" earlier on which is a hint of what's to come. It's just that for me the first half feels like a romantic ode to sailing while the second half feels like a bawdy drinking song about pirates. It may not be an issue--just something I noticed. So nice to see you back on Writerscafe. Maybe I'm wrong but seems you've been away for a while.