Missing Angels Poem by Michael Barry

Swabbing decks of Agony
Tradewinds blew the salted sea
Coating her in rotted wood
Where once my angels rose and stood

From roaming-foaming fondling pleasure
Wanton lust of basal measure
When ganted galley courted Jester
'Bounty' fastened stolen treasure

And night-two-night
Crack-flash flashed light
Thunder clap-clasped rippled sky
In zenith blight and lighthouse bright
As spray sprayed in tempest eye

In driplet-droplet shaded day
Watchman lights a blinding blaze
His beacon beckons Eden Cay
Whilest flitter-flutters dove and jay

Warning raised
Mourning razed
Morning seized
Still tosseled seas

Four doldrums fixed her wind in cage
"Oh, lithely sullen weathervane! "
As cloy's employ has rendered still
At dusk of day and storehouse filled

Drunk-in gawdy tawdry taverns
Inches mizzle-drizzle pain
Crooked hunched sail batter-tattered
Creeks and whales 'neath shaken rain

She far b'low leagues of tempest roiling
Current thief
Tugging tide
Doused alive and "bye" and "bye"

Swabbing decks of Agony
Tradewinds blew the salted sea
Coating her in rotted wood
Where once my angels rose and stood

©mikkele