Stormbound

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Gaze out to sea upon blown rig and sail in our fright’s strand on stormwatch to the south, heed the mighty whirlwind, its scything trail - Galleon’s Passage to the Serpent’s Mouth. See the bended trees on coconut row when lightning fork flashing turns night to day - let it sunder, let it rage, let it blow across river and swamp in Cocos Bay. When away are cattle jittery led and heron, egret, crane, and frigate bird take flight for cover when all else have fled till a cockcrow at early dawn is heard. When eerie is the billfish feeding ground and missing are the pelicans stormbound. Written: July 1996 Trinidad & Tobago.

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Paula Goldsmith

Date: 7/13/2024 7:55:00 AM

I enjoyed reading your "Stormbound" write. I love your 2 pictures. Wish I was walking on the beach & drinking from a coconut. Have a blessed day writing away................

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 7/15/2024 4:51:00 AM

Thanks for that image. Haven’t drank from a coconut in nearly 40 years. Cheers.

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 7/12/2024 3:49:00 PM

It is a poem that has a heavy weather presence with a tropical backdrop. Trinidad &Tobago were brought into my living room with this poem.

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 7/12/2024 10:42:00 PM

I remember the storms that would roll in as a kid. They both scared and excited me. Thanks Hilda.

Tom Woody

Date: 7/12/2024 11:40:00 AM

Hey, you used to write good stuff! What happened? Awesome sonnet

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 7/12/2024 10:41:00 PM

I used to do a lot of good things but such is life. Now I’m just a bitter and twisted old curmudgeon. Wait, did I say that out loud?

Deb M

Date: 7/12/2024 7:19:00 AM

Sounds just beautiful Keith….l can understand why you would miss it…. Do you live in Oz now? A really lovely poem! Debx

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 7/12/2024 10:42:00 PM

Live in Qld now. Have done for 27 years. The old Trinidad has lots of memories but that’s all that’s left for me now. The island now is not the place I remember. Cheers.