Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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A Mariner’s Tale

On third voyage five centuries ago
   sailed the Spanish Main a Queen’s fleet south-west,
 and the age of discovery’s great glow
   shone upon caravels in ocean quest.
 Into island passage beyond gulf trail
   through Boca del Dragon on landing wave
 led the Genoan’s flagship under sail -
   safe travelled and spared a jagged reef’s grave.
“Behold far Indies, land of sun and realm -
   by crown and Royal Warrant I claim thee!”.
 That virgin New World, that far crossing helm,
   these possession Isles of the Trinity.
 In a mariner’s tale there’s one true love -
 sea and tide below and the stars above.


            Written: December 1995

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