Katrina Parkinson Poet Rhyme

Homeward Hopes of a 'Man'

Dismally dashing, clashing cankering, sunken ravines
Braved the batterings of the black, heaving sea
Seized upon the cyclical stream ‘lined ‘long the wind
Yonder b’yond the decrepit hail, 
Nailing mine knees upon this hill.

I sang by a bygone cheer, a childish chortle
Honed where, and whence 
Mine woes wade with homeward hopes.

Now, where one dare awoke,
a-top such the slope
To sing a song that shall beat at the bulkheads, 
of the boats borne below
A sonnet sung to arise with the seeds of the soil
Arise as a rose
Manned with the majesty, the masculinity,
Of the man within me.

So to see the afflicting affections, 
Of the sanctity without me.
So to see and reel in the eel,
Of un-static enthusiasm.
So to know, mine might may deem me,
Not the man within me, 
A dastardly indelicate dame.

11//5//2026

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