Hie There

All these damned hills

Rising before me

Falling behind

and white foam

bobbling around my

ever tiring running feet

Is there no end

where am I going

Why did I ever

Leave shore

again

de

Lila

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

Not a sailor as such but been up and down quite a bit. So a little qualified to say I know just what you mean here. But its not just about sailing is it?

[Valentine]

Different approach to the drifting mind. Valentine

[Tate Morgan]

A thought that I've had myself on many occasions off and I wondered why I ever started out on the trip only to long for home

[Tomás Ó C..]

A sailors lament... sure in life we are all sailors! Bring on the waves!

[John]

I'm not sure what the shape of the poem is meant to suggest, perhaps no more than a symmetrically satisfying form, but it could parallel, with its alternating short and long lines, the toing and froing of the exasperated speaker. I particularly like the line 'ever tiring running feet', which expresses the relentless nature of the enterprise, and the way the stanza literally hones to a point with the played-upon name of the lady who has been forsaken once again.

[Donald Meikle]

You found it all sir

[Donald Meikle]

except the spinning top