Exceptional A Pantoum Pantoum Collection : To Sappho by tfawcus Artwork by MoonWillow at FanArtReview.com

Aboard my silent silver ship I sped. The wind was in my soul I set out on a lonely trip The isle of Lesbos was my goal I sped. The wind was in my soul A nightmare journey though it seems The isle of Lesbos was my goal To find my Sapphic cave of dreams A nightmare journey though it seems Cruel Eros made it hard for me To find my Sapphic cave of dreams He set my heart adrift at sea Cruel Eros made it hard for me To sing my soul's eternal tune He set my heart adrift at sea My lyric voice besought the moon To sing my soul's eternal tune With notes of tidal lunacy My lyric voice besought the moon Will Sappho ever join with me With notes of tidal lunacy I set out on a lonely trip Will Sappho ever join with me Aboard my silent silver ship Recognized Earned A Seal Of Quality Author Notes Yeltel recently challenged me to write a pantoum on a nautical theme with references to ancient Greece and this is it. I dedicate it to Sappho, a Greek poet so widely respected as a lyric poet in her day that Plato once described her as the tenth muse. She lived on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea over 600 years before the birth of Christ. Only a few fragments of her verse survive. They are of unutterable beauty and some have a gentle underlying eroticism. Sadly most of her work is now lost. My poem is a quest, an odyssey if you like, a vain search for all this lost beauty. A pantoum has repeating lines throughout. The 2nd and 4th lines of each stanza are repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. Additionally, to complete the circularity, the 3rd and 1st lines of the poem become, respectively, the 2nd and 4th lines of the last stanza. © Copyright 2024. tfawcus All rights reserved. tfawcus has granted FanStory.com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.