poetry form week 31, humor week 45, short story slam week `138

an example poem by walt whitman


title: after the sea-ship



“After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying…”






another sample




before sunrise, --before the air is stirred with morning business,
before all dawn dew shy away from hurried footsteps,
before a primary school teacher combs her long blond hair,
some cars drive itself
traffic of buses, red light stops, anxious eyes of children