Sails of evermore

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



Shafts of sun beams create an unworldly scene

Brightly to make their presence known

Against a backdrop  

Of dark and silvery white billowing clouds

An expression i cannot hope to duplicate,  

Merely suggest its majesty,  

Magnificent as it appears to me

As emotions touching vast and deep,  

Parting pathways through the clouds  

In random formations

Like sailing ships masts  

Cutting through the mists of fog

Or star fields far above and beyond  

On a distant journey  

Through universal oceans of eternity  

These endless days and nights with cloud trails following foretelling winds which carry our souls 

To other worlds beneath the stars

Without speaking just to say  

This is our spirits flowing through  

To a common destination

Streams of life beaming down from above

Carried between the hopes and dreams  

Of me and you

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Submitted by Charles2 on August 20, 2023

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Scheme X X X A X B B X A X X X X B B X X X C X D X C D
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 899
Words 183
Stanzas 24
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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