Cardinal Winds (2025)

Sea Shanty

Look to the North,

Its harrowing gales

Hath not 

Knocked dreaming

From our sails -

The icy blasts,

Tramontane,

Serve us to

Begin again.

Look to the South,

Siroccan dreamers,

Poets all, yea

Dreaming weavers,

Bask in balms

On a balmy breeze -

When work's completed,

Take thy ease.

Look to the West

Zephyrine lovers,

Look to the kestrel

As it hovers;

Pinned unto 

Effulgent skies -

Contemplation

Maketh wise.

Look to the East

Where all beginnings

Genesis flower -

Cease your sinning.

Eurine shivers

Birth new beginnings -

Without despair,

Our souls are winning.

Sunrise sets

Upon thy face,

Frost disenfranchised;

Winter's haze.

Hestia smiles both

East and West -

Originality

Is best.

North and South

Diametric poles,

Light the tinders,

Rake the coals;

It's all within you -

Take the time

To build with Coleridge,

Perfect rhyme.