Shelley - The Last Voyage

a look back

The gentleness of rain was in the wind.

No hesitant step ; no slip on the salt planks,

the sky broken with grey. A sea change for a radical

with no fear of God ; the frantic lover on a barge Don Juan.

A dissolution into muse ; not Lerici but a fire on the beach.

Green sea chopped ; a seagull bending like a iron bar slowly.

Cor Cordium ; you have already been claimed 

for more than ten sea miles.

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

Very visual and gives a real Enlightenment flavour. But what would Polidori say?
I, on the other hand find it very beautiful and yet subtle.

[Tina Kline]

A very impressive write. It's very visual with lots of motion and action.
I really enjoyed this a lot.