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Greece 2001

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Classic Literature, Sea sickness / July 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We take the boat back to Athens
cold and windy and a little rough

Dorsey lies down all the way

If she is Helen returned
she might again cause the launching
of a thousand ships
but she would not sail on one

I have an ouzo and man the bow
swells rising through my feet
feeling the eternity of the sea

When the islands are out of sight
I still feel and could steer
by the shape of the waves

Looking Down on Cruise Ships

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Classic Literature, Crowds, Mediterranean, Odyssey, Spain / July 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Wide-windowed morning view
from the seventeenth floor of the W
moored on a peninsula off Barcelona

Below and to the right cruise ships five
each disgorging fifty times the number that peopled the prairie town of my youth
(and that sometimes seemed too many)

Ahead and to the east as far as eye can see
stretches Homer's wine-dark sea
where still sails the Argo and on deck - me

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Indeed!
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Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
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Lovely!
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