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A Ballad Of Tide & Time

by Stephen W Atkinson

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I watched the ship break

under the biblical rage of the sea

The mast creaking into splinters

The greedy waves taking bites of bow & stern 

I listened 

as the wind, howling like a wolf,

carried the wailing away 

under a sky of trauma 

But then, 

her hand broke through a swell

Alabaster against grey

I cried out

Tried to crawl

but too soon 

I would be ca...

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Tuesday 17th January 2023 6:54 pm

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ONWARDS

by NICK ARMBRISTER

 

ONWARDS

A paralysis of my mind at seeing a ship on her side,                                                                                                                                                                                                                          nearly level with the sea.                                                                                   ...

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Monday 28th November 2011 11:38 pm

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