DOLDRUMS

"Down dropt th' breeze, th' sails dropt down
'Twas sad as sad could be;
An' we did speak only t' break
th' silence o' th' sea."

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner

MY ETERNAL 'GOING FORTH'....

To misquote the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca:

"I GO IN SEARCH OF MYSTERIOUS SEAS AND PIRATES."



MLRF
'07

TH' WINDS WILL COME

"It is quite still now above and below, except when the great mains'l gives itself a shake, as if impatient for a gentle breeze, now it is held in confinement by a reef or two.
But I say, keep quiet mains'l a little while, have patience, these black clouds will disappear e'er long."

"Then Jack and Bill with Tom and Harry
Will loose and hoist you with a song right merry
But you must wait so pray be still
Let tired sailors sleep that will."
~Mary Rowland 1857



MLRF
'07

TOUCH TH' WIND

"It seems to me there can no longer be any choice between enduring the torment of reality, of false categories, soulless concepts, amorphous schemata, and the pleasure of living in a fully accepted unreality."~Joseph Roth Flight Without End