- Non-Erotic Poetry
- The Diary of Captain Picard
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1 November 1694
What is there but read or write poetry
now that Satan has visited these waters?
He strangles the ship with sargassum fingers
after he blew all the trade winds away.
Oh, that I were on the Saguenay River
where once I traded for Iroquois pelts.
I should have tacked more to the South Atlantic
from west equatorial Africa
to travel the coastline up from Brazil,
except Monsieur le Gouverneur sent word
his treasury was lacking for molasses,
and my sea dogs were thirsting for their rum.
Perhaps we have perished and gone to hell
for the sin of throwing them overboard,
first the frail, intended as one transaction
The Company surely would have forgiven,
but soon there were needed all of the rations
for black feral muscle nourished for auction.
Desmarais, I fear, will not last the night
after his kidneys succumb to the brine,
but in his madness he says there is time
to find a young widow who for her passage
will pleasure us all the way back to Nantes
where a priest he knows requires small penance.
- COMMENTS
Desejoalmost 13 years agoBeautiful wording as always.
I particularly liked the first stanza, sucks the reader right in.
And as for Captain Picard: Any trekkie knows that Picard also loved poetry, and I for one would love to see you do a piece set in the Alpha Quadrant. Make it so! (sorry. Nerd tendencies kicked in)
twelveoonealmost 13 years agowell, that clears that mystery up.
Now a disclaimer for any readers that follow, what I have to say should not distract or detract from your interpretation of the poem. I feel it is a solid five. GM, here you go after distant and easy targets, (slavery and hypocrisy), you have enough talent to explore something a little more difficult. I suggested one closer to now, and home. Dare.
greenmountaineeralmost 13 years agoAuthorThanks for the comment. Quite honestly, I chose the surname because it's common in nearby Quebec and goes back to the earliest French settlers of the province. If I had remembered the Star Trek connection, I would have chosen a different surname because it complicates the voyage; pun intended.
