Did you plan to ride with me to the coast
if so, we will be leaving at first light
the need to be on time is uppermost
I want to be there settled in tonight
not like last year when sadly I was late
seems much drinking occurred the night before
too late to bed had sadly doomed my fate
the ship sailed as I watched it from my door
but this year’s cruise should prove to be a blast
crazy friends, drinks, food of every kind
these soirees have been epic in the past
if we are late we will be left behind
tomorrow, it is breakfast on the beach
it’s there we meet our hostess for the week
she’ll have the masks we’ll need — there’s one for each
remember, after that we do not speak
yacht of wonder, where splendid games are played
magic – this high seas silent masquerade
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rob kistner © 2023
Poetry at: dVerse
Rave On John Donne
by: Sir George Ivan Morrison
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Uptempo, frenzied heels
Rave on, Walt Whitman, nose down in wet grass
Rave on fill the senses
On nature’s bright green shady path
Rave on Omar Khayyam, Rave on Kahlil Gibran
Oh, what sweet wine we drinketh
The celebration will be held
We will partake the wine and break the Holy bread
Rave on let a man come out of Ireland
Rave on on Mr. Yeats
Rave on down through the Holy Rosey Cross
Rave on down through theosophy, and the Golden Dawn
Rave on through the writing of A Vision
Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down though the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on
Rave on, John Donne
A high seas silent masquerade sounds intriguing, Rob. I hope you don’t miss the boat this year.
I will do my best to be punctual Kim… 🙂
Sounds like a trip to remember! Fun and games for all aboard!
Well done, my friend!
Thank you Dwight… 🙂
This is a magical write, Rob. I loved it.
~David
Thank you so much David… 🙂
You ended it so well. Brilliant composition!
Thank you Reena… 🙂
Well done, Rob. Though not, I think, my type of event. 😉
Thank you Merril. In the past years, a little earlier in life, I would have loved it. But that was then, in my healthy years — not able to now my friend… 😉
Ooh that sounds more than intriguing. All language spoken is through the body…
Party down Lisa… 🙂
This is expertly wrought, Rob! 😀
Thank you Sanaa… 🙂
Sounds like quite a party!
Party down Kerfe… 🙂
Love this silent masquerade, Rob! Love.
Thsnk you Helen. I think it would be fascinating… 🙂
If there’s one meal that I wouldn’t eat on the beach it would be breakfast. Liked your poem, keep pedal to metal. From here the Gulf Coast city of Galveston is 60 miles away, San Francisco is 1,943 miles. I don’t know how far away your coast is located.
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About 15 miles gets us to the Sound. We are about a mile from the huge Lake Washington, which connects directly to the Puget Sound, a huge bay inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Our neighbor has a big boat which he moors right down the street. We’ve boarded right there and cruised through Lake Washington and Puget Sound and up the Washington State Coast all he way up to Canada’s Victoria Island. It’s a about 3 hour boat ride from his Lake Washington dock. Another couple hours around Orca and Lopez Islands and up the Strait of Georgia, and you are docking at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — but only if you have a current American Passport… which most everyone around here has because Canada is closer than Oregon. We don’t have to worry about much sand blowing around on the beaches here. They’re mostly tiny, crushed pebbles. This is not a friendly coast like the Atlantic ocean, these are gorgeous cliffs, beautiful huge stone, and rugged pebble Beaches. There are some sandy beaches which have been man-made, but there are few and far between. There are huge stretches of lovely sand beaches along the coast of Oregon, mixed in with the cliffs and boulders, just not many sandy beaches appear in Washington. The Oregon coast is an adventure ous trip unto itself. It’s quite powerful and utterly amazing.
That sounds like a cruise you wouldn’t like to miss…
Sounds like a bit it will be some swinging happening later.
If there are fair winds and a calm sea Björn … 🙂
Looks like a lot of fun and with that masquarade game too. Have blast of fun reading this.
Thank you Grace… 🙂