OTI:eight poems and notes:5/7/17

Open To Interpretation

Fish Swim

Well,

I ain't gonna say

It ain't foolish.

How it ever can be

I don't know.

Hell,

I am cartoonish

In this animated play.

Tell

The stage hands

Not to fret

When I'm mulish and bray.

Fish swim and lovers pray.

The Red Ships
From Black Dragon Lore

Over time,

Black Ships continue to grow,

Albeit slowly,

And on occasion

When the oldest of the old

Are seen it is seen

The hulls have become

Deep maroon red,

The Black Sails

Mottled black and white,

And the rigging

Attended by great Bats and Owls.

They gallop,

Albeit slowly,

Only at night.

At day

They sleep, hidden within

Grey fog bank shrouds

Of their own making

And dream Red Ship dreams.

Another

To be an individual

Is one thing,

To be part of a group

Another.

I can't speak

For another,

Our loyalties

Being what they are.

Offshore Wind

The Greek Ships were afar off

From Piraeus,

And the warning of their arrival

Spread through the Minoan Ships

And they manned they're oars

Least an entrapment sink

Them all in the harbor.

The off shore evening wind

Drove shoreward

The Geek Ships, sails full,

And it was swiftly done,

Black Ship harpoons flung,

Minos' ships set ablaze

And in disarray.

Poseidon brought a fog

And what remained

Escaped that night,

Minos and Pasiphae

Home bound to Crete,

Theseus,

Sword in hand,

Enthroned at Athens;

Athena's victory.

Continue

Can I continue

Having become

An object of study

By your crew?

Just so,

What can they find out

That you don't already know?

Giggle
 

Oh,

So I'm one

Of those remarkable

Ones

That goes

From a giggle

To an 'Oh!'

And back to a giggle.

Things aren't all show!

WWW

Oh,

What a world this is

I've been given over to,

Captive, shuffling behind,

Shackled and chained
With all my kind all grumbling
At hearing you cackle,
What a world,
What a world
What a world.

Carp

So, soldier,
Carping,
No one knows we're here,
Or gives a F*k.
What do you think we all are,
Telepathic?


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Notes:  Fish Swim...wanted this one to be a song...hence 'gonna' and 'ain't'...for sometime...Another...a try at sorting things out...Offshore Wind...tying up a loose end!...Continue...'proceeding/proceed' a refrain...Giggle...a goof...WWW...reference movie Wizard of Oz1939...Wicked Witch of the West...a goof with puns...Carp...another try at sorting things out...to run with a pack is the happiest of things...to be without a tribe likely the unhappiest!...The Red Ships...a new favorite!...oh, looking for the WWW, I found a site full of speech quotes, American Rhetoric...and ads...how American!

:)

DavidDavid