Sailing then as of the title, and I have indeed been sailing, but on a cruise, though also sailing along quite well since I got back a week or so ago, but that has certainly gone quick due to my successful sailing along on land too. On return I had to quickly do a couple of regular articles that were due, and a commissioned poem too, so no running aground for The Psychy Poet.

My most sensational news of late may have slipped out a little, but I will concentrate on, and reveal next blog, so as saying goes WATCH THIS SPACE !!!

First poem HAS to be one from my 5th book “Life Presented in Verse” (2017) and following blog title is caled Love Cruise…..

Love Cruise

I’ve often heard it said by people

You easily fall in love when afloat,

So maybe we should take the hint

To get ourselves on a boat,

A ship or perhaps cruise liner,

That can bring on amorous fun

For most would probably enjoy it

After all is said and done.

The sailors smart in their uniforms

Ladies gorgeous with flowing hair,

And the rocking motion of the ship

Can lead the willing to a lair.

But best be warned in advance

That all voyages have to end,

So whispered promises on board

On land may cease to blend.

Of course there are many waters

With some shallow, others deep,

And unless you are compliant

No love harvest will you reap.

Thus best to set off and away

To cruise across those seas,

With open mind, and hopeful soul

And a warm heart that agrees.

So cast adrift within your mind

To survey the longer views

Of near or far horizons

That may soon sight your muse.

As you sail in your ship, I in mine

With no course truly charted,

As we journey across our seas

Maybe not so totally parted.

For any ship can be turned around

To a destination for you,

And as rough waters slowly calm

You just dock where you want to.

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That follows the title theme nicely, and now our lovely and adorable pair Ted & Beth want to get in on the act with a poem from their very own book “Tea for Two: Poetic Antics of Ted & Beth”

Sailor Bears

Ted and Beth now want a boat

And plan to take it out to sea,

But I know that neither can swim

So it is a very big worry to me.

They just think I’m being silly though

And said they’ll be safe and sound,

But I’m not really too sure of that

As in a paddling pool nearly drowned,

So let alone going out to the open sea

With hard navigation and deep water,

Making me dread just what could happen

As they’ll be like bears to a slaughter.

Naturally “Captain” Ted disputes all this

While Beth always backs him up too,

So they are still determined to go for it

And give the Coastguard more to do.

Now Ted points out all his experience

But I don’t think a boat in a bath is much,

With Beth even getting panicky with that

So it’s just Ted’s uniformed hopes as such.

For he’s no knowledge about boats at sea

But Beth still believes he can do it all.

So it seems a nautical disaster awaits

Like a sort of “ducking” before a fall.

Now I did though have one more try

To make our seafaring bears see sense,

And although they said they’d continue

I could tell they were both very tense,

With Beth clutching her water wings

That in truth she cannot quite wear.

And even Ted seemed less sure now

But determines to be a sailing bear.

So now they are all prepared to set off

With more than a little hint of doubt.

But luckily it was saved before the start,

When they saw the tide had gone out.

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Yes, well those bears in on the act there, but meanwhile as I’ve been away my poetic news is more limited, and my other experiences follow that well know saying “what happens at sea, stays at sea” lol, ALTHOUGH some may sneak into future poems?

JOKE TIME =

Bit of a different blog then this one, but maybe all that sailing, though anyway I will finish up, and as usual before I do thank everyone for support and encouragement, so last poem is “Lament for a Lost Heart”, (lost at sea?) and from my 6th book Poet Reveals All…

Lament for a Lost Heart

This is a lament for all the lost

At least those who’ve run aground,

On voyages and searches for love

That they never happily found.

Maybe it was their own defences

Which ensured no happy connection,

Or possibly they miserably sailed

In the completely wrong direction,

Never to meet up with, and blossom

In a welcoming and loving heart.

So whatever fair winds and tides

They were doomed from the start.

Because most people can get caught

And boarded by loves attraction,

Unless fear, malice or selfishness

Prevents any mutual satisfaction

Of that loving bond and arousal,

Causing hearts to swoon and fly.

But if a love is denied expression

It can whither up and die.

So sail on alone in a wilderness

That is like a horizon-less sea,

Bobbing about and lost forever

With a sad heart not allowed to be,

Cast off to adventurously fly

Just where its passions want to go.

Thus all sensations and love stories

Its lost life will never know.

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With love and thanks from me and Ted & Beth as The Journey Continues Sailing On

Laurie xx

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