Re: [Paddlewise] Into The Mystic (was Mariner Max for sale)

From: Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:46:35 -0700
Sorry gang, I cut and pasted the wrong version after spell check; corrected 
below. Ya gotta know a bit about Mariners to catch it.

For Matt:


Into The Mystic - by Doug Lloyd

An ocean cradles my slender craft
Not as a mother her own
But life cradling the journey.

The Mystery, the Profoundness of All
Transcendence found in undulations
Rising, falling. Floating above.

Ere, my bonnie boat glides
Fleeting spindrift. Wind-thrown away
And the moments? Accounted for!

So few really knew
It rocked the gypsy soul
Born before wind and waves.

Hull. Water. Apart and one.
Free of encumberances
Magnificently. Visionary.

A Legacy of friends.
Into the Mystic all must go.
The Mariner. There is no fear.

Doug Lloyd
Victoria BC
(with appologies to Van Morrison)
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