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Ice Patrol STANAVFORLANT, by Adrian McRobb

14/2/2021

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TRAVEL
Frost rimed bows nudge underwater caverns of invisible glass
as our despairing breath huffs into wraithes of souls lost at sea
we lay clothed shivering in sleeping bags listening through the hull
whales sing their songs of hopeless melody warning of yet dreamt nightmares
ice fields which groan like a brittle choir in pain and quiet grave like cold
like a white linen shroud where the ghosts of Titanic lifeboats row in endless agony
Newfoundland Banks envelopes and caresses cold to the bone and eerily chilled
sailing on a steaming pond or gliding through a memory of death
no talking on the quarter deck strange hushed voices in a frozen church
this graveyard of the Atlantic with its rusting harvest of wrecks...
4 Comments
Andrew Carter
17/2/2021 12:26:34 am

Haunting and descriptive, Adrian. Interesting to read about overseas seas.

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Sue Clayton
17/2/2021 12:54:34 am

A chilling word picture of the ghosts that line the bottom of our oceans.

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Mary Wallace
17/2/2021 04:28:11 am

A harvest of wrecks. Beautifully descriptive. A haunting, atmospheric picture.

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Adrian McRobb
19/2/2021 07:05:25 pm

A long time ago now!

Thanks Andrew, Sue, Mary...

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