This month is poetry month on the Weekly Column. This week is a poem that you might have read on the Kid’s Zone before it was updated.

SS War

 

There you stand,
Gigantic and huge
magnified in the calm waters of the sea
Your masts stretching out like jail bars
that have trapped the moon.

Your captain stands mighty and proud,
on deck, giving orders.
Your cannons are loaded,
ready for war.

You go on
nothing can stop you
Then suddenly you stop.
In the dark, dark night.
There is absolutely no noise.

Nobody is moving,
the clitter-clatter of your 100-man crew has stopped.
You wonder what is going on
Suddenly the night is lit up
By a shot from a cannon.

The peaceful sea now suddenly
is serving as a huge battleground
Your crew returns fire
the clitter-clatter of little feet
begin pounding on your deck again.

There is complete havoc on deck
some abandon ship out of sheer fear
Then suddenly you feel a hole
the starboard side had sprung a leak
water trickles in drop by drop
you are hit again.

you are beginning to sink
You give a tough fight,
but there is nothing that you can do
you go down
taking all your valuables with you.

When the shimmer of daylight finally arrives,
the ocean has become your burial ground
That fateful night will be remembered by one and all .

Date posted: January 17, 1999.

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