Refuge

Dave BontaContemplative

I am resolved to flee to my sand castle

in which I may not fear anything but time or anger

I shall be bland as a discourse on ships

how dangerous it is to dally with a little doubt

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 25 November 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: doubt, castle, sand, ship

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The speaker announces a decision to run away to a sand castle, a place that sounds safe but is about as unreliable as shelters get. Sand castles wash away, and the poem seems well aware of it. Even inside this refuge, the speaker admits there are two things still to fear: time and anger.

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