DREAM SHIP
ROKEN the dream, the gracile yacht unlaunched Denied existence, built in words not wood; Sailing only in desirous eyes The mind’s dimensions, lazy hours that should Have registered in terms of work wel} done And discontented moods. We, the crew The nameless two contracted Time the cheat To hold our dream, preserve it for the blue Unblemished future. Nothing now remains, Not even words. Her mast a slende1 wand, Her graceful line true from bow to stern Her litted sails lovely and beyond All poetry: we lived in fantasy Upon her decks, quested tropic seas | And slipped asleep hushed by lapping waves A yard away. To all the threnodies For ships forsaken, lost or sold for scrap I add a song for ships unborn that lie In broken dreams; for ships built out o words That fall to silence like a seagull’s cry.
Merval H.
Connelly
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 33
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148DREAM SHIP New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 33
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