Poems

“Ocean House”

                                        I must go down to the seas again,

                                       to the lonely sea and sky …

                                       from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield

If I could be granted a second life

my home would be by the sea,

an old sturdy house that had seen

many storms, felt many pounding

winds but remained standing

like a champion boxer. I’d sleep

upstairs with the curtains open

so I could see the stars. Each night

I fall into dreams to the music of waves,

their song unending in the darkness.

Edwin Romond