Did you plan to ride with me to the coast
if so, we will be leaving at first light
the need to be on time is uppermost
I want to be there settled in tonight
not like last year when sadly I was late
seems much drinking occurred the night before
too late to bed had sadly doomed my fate
the ship sailed as I watched it from my door
but this year’s cruise should prove to be a blast
crazy friends, drinks, food of every kind
these soirees have been epic in the past
if we are late we will be left behind
tomorrow, it is breakfast on the beach
it’s there we meet our hostess for the week
she’ll have the masks we’ll need — there’s one for each
remember, after that we do not speak
yacht of wonder, where splendid games are played
magic – this high seas silent masquerade
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rob kistner © 2023
Poetry at: dVerse
Rave On John Donne
by: Sir George Ivan Morrison
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Uptempo, frenzied heels
Rave on, Walt Whitman, nose down in wet grass
Rave on fill the senses
On nature’s bright green shady path
Rave on Omar Khayyam, Rave on Kahlil Gibran
Oh, what sweet wine we drinketh
The celebration will be held
We will partake the wine and break the Holy bread
Rave on let a man come out of Ireland
Rave on on Mr. Yeats
Rave on down through the Holy Rosey Cross
Rave on down through theosophy, and the Golden Dawn
Rave on through the writing of A Vision
Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down though the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on, rave on
Rave on, John Donne