Haiku - Poetical Peculiarity Poem by Douglas Scotney

Are YOU daft? i KNOW i am! ! definition(s) of PROW, [A NOUN]: 1- the portion of a ship's bow above water. [bow is 'the 'forward part' of a ship] synonyms: bow(s) , stem, front, nose, head, cutwater 2 - the pointed or projecting front part of something such as a car or building [OR, I GUESS, A SENTENCE! ] (cont.)

(cont.) Does the poem then mean (among other things) that a sentence's forward end is at the BEGINNING of a sentence, where the first letter of the lead word is always supposed to be capitalized? ? BUT...... i think of the forward end as being where the dot aka period (or another punctuation mark goes) . this IS getting 'involved'! (CONT.)

(cont.) definition of AFT [an ADVERB or an ADJECTIVE, ...NOT a noun] at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft. BUT.............stern is at the 'other end' from the bow, so.........., to me, the stern would be at the 'end' of a sentence where the lead letter is always capitalized! ! ! ] (cont.)

A fine blend of words and image. A tremendous haiku.

'No figure head /at each prow seems daft'. A concise summing up of the two tantalising haiku.

(cont.) I THINK OF A SENTENCE AS ‘sailing to the right, not to the left’. I guess Douglas thinks otherwise! AND, to me, a figurehead (of a ship) is a carving/statue, often, in my mind, of the torso of a buxom woman. Nice! Bri :)

(cont.) i had to 'LOOK' AT THE POEM, as well as READ the poem in order to understand it and its humour/humor. it is really a very clever poem, if one figures it out. Douglas's poems are at times TOO MUCH of a 'challenge' for me to decipher! (cont.)

(cont.) So, i guess if Capt. Hook OR Capt. Ahab said to swab** Bri: Get yea aft! , aft is used as an adverb? but i can understand it being used as a noun in the poem, and, in any case, i'll grant poetic license to Douglas to use aft as a noun! ! ** (slang) A sailor; a swabby to MyPoemList (cont.)