Short Mckay Poems

T-wilight is over, 
E-arly as the morning breaks, 
D-awn replaces dusk, 
D-ark shadows have disappeared, 
Y-our day of birth is lovely.

Topic: Birthday of Gertrudes "Teddy" Reyes (March 21) 
Form: Acrostic Tanka
Photo: Billie McKay...

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            Get Well Soon!

       For Madelyn McKay, this May!

      M~magical, moonlighted May
      A~ asteroids, in the sky play
      Y~yacht club lights flicker on the bay

                   

                    5/2/2021
                      ~1~...

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She launched into sea in 1852,
And was build by Donald McKay.
She sailed from Honolulu, Hawaii
To New York in a whopping 82 days.

She set the fastest speed ever recorded,
On her second leg voyage for a sailing ship.
She logged in at 22 knots/25 mph,
Over a 24 hour, 400 mile trip.

She loved to sail the open ocean,
Sailing away with the breeze.
She was a Bostonian Clipper Ship,
Named the Sovereign of the seas....

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Pan: Betel. Or quintessentially creole, made anew, pan-American music
Aloo: also Native American, the staff of life, versatile with curry
Naan: often translated roti, chapati, dhaalpuri, but not rotisserie
Dholak: the drums that doubled (not Doubles) as tassa, for Hosay
I : I, too, know bitter sugar, the syrupy blood of plantations
Tasted: Tasted the brotherhood of the boat, in another middle passage
Appointments: with pen. She is a better pendit than Claude McKay, CLR, VS ......

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