Best Windward Poems

Gazing Windward 
	on a summer’s evening
Loch David Crane
1981

Whose waves these are, I think I know:
   his home is in the sea below.
He will not see me stopping here
   to watch the whitecaps come and go.

Enlisted sailors think me weird
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When the clouds
 Become untied and divided
 Sometimes, colliding together
 Tumbling upside down or,
 They are knocking each other around....
 I know that's you up there
 Guiding me, humbly along
 So I am reminded again
 To be strong and push aside
 My longing and fear
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I hear thou whisper through the trees
   and thy breath upon my cheek
is flowing warmth, sweet gentle breeze
   as in thy course thou search and seek.
Thy forces grow within thy dance
   and raise the volume of thy song.
If not...

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The wind
is an agent of change
so I face it
head on
and welcome its
cold embrace
its cleansing properties
its whirling breath
that chafes my skin
and chills my core
and I ask it to change me
and it always obliges....

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Chase the breakers out of the harbour
before the customs boat appears.
Strike the sails and tack to larboard 
then comes the old familiar fear.
Will they run us, or will they gun us?
Damn these sails, catch the wind.
Spume and foam roll and spin us,
forgive us Lord for...

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