Apr 25, 2016 Original Poetry, sonnet

In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: Whisper

Whispers of Another Land
©April 25th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

To wave your oar at every ship that goes
Upon the waves on which you row your boat
Is foolishness, for all it does is show
The world around you that you are afloat.

The whispers of a land from far away
Are just the wake in which your vessel flies,
But now, distracted by the waves that play
You turn around with wheeling seabirds’ cries.

When whispers of another world are drowned
By shouts of glee and mirth that pass like mist
In mid-day sun before you run aground
You push your oar into the waves, resist!

When distant voices try to reel you in —
Come, let them pull you up above the din.

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P.S.  I seem to want to keep writing sonnets nowadays!

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