- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Might These High Seas...
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Click hereMight these high seas deceive?
When her laughter sounds near
My ear.
Who do I believe?
When I see upon her chest,
Breaking waves merely crest.
To who do I atone?
When on the phone she attests,
Lest I protest her request;
To be always hers to press,
And always hers possessed.
- COMMENTS
UnderYourSpellabout 13 years agoAlso tripped over who/whom ....... like the last stanza very clever
GuiltyPleasureabout 13 years ago....small, slightly anal-retentive comment - should it not be "to WHOM do I attone"? Other than that it read smoothly for me.
Tess
WilliamButlerYeatsabout 13 years agoAuthorI wrote "who do I believe?" when in my tablet it read, "Who's plea might I believe?" For anyone who's interested, it read:
Might these high seas deceive?
When her laughter sounds near mine ear.
Who's plea might I believe?
When I see upon her chest,
Breaking waves merely crest.
To who do I atone?
When on the phone she attests,
Lest I protest her request;
To be always hers to press,
And always hers possessed.
twelveooneabout 13 years agoBilly B. You know of my war against rhyming couplets, breaks the pattern. Amusing. I'll consider it a parody of sorts, but skirts it "When on the phone she attests," although, "Lest I protest her request;" Not exactly high poetry. New writers take note, four pattern, question, question, question, answer. Does not take it past the law of diminishing returns. A 5
