Wine-dark sea

Dave BontaSad

The sea is great company but poor entertainment. We go out all in mourning, believing it a sermon and a pall.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 August 1661.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
death, sea, mourning, sermon

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