The Voyage
Saturday, 6 June 2009 at 10:19 PM (Poetry)
Published 1997, The Accounts: August-October 1997 Magazine, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Philippines.
Written while watching fishing boats and barges, after a mosquito-laden night.
The Voyage
Cutting through waves
A swath of foam;
Green-gray curdles
Trail underfoot.
A raft of makeshift hopes,
Adrift for days
And aimless:
Steered blindly on.
Beyond the mist,
Cobbles and rock-bits
Make a swarthy testament
Of lands beyond.
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