h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

and you're gone. I will think of it all morning ... and of how
restless we would be, you and I, inside the perfect
music of that basalt and sandstone
coastal town.

[Distances, Eavan Boland.]

August Bank Holiday - a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand. A fanfare of sunshades opening. A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers. A compromise of paddlers. A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons.

Dylan Thomas

Sea-birds are asleep,
The world forgets to weep,
Sea murmurs her soft slumber-song

[Noel Roden: Sea Slumber Song]

I must go down to the sea again
the lonely sea and sky,
i think i left my pants down there
i wonder if the'r dry?

milligan a.k.a.W.B.Yeats
thanks for the welcome J.

November

There is wind where the rose was,
Cold rain where sweet grass was,
And clouds like sheep
Stream o'er the steep
Grey skies where the lark was.

Walter de la Mare

All's well, all's quiet as the great
Ark noses her way into the night,
Caulked, battened, blessed for her trip,
And behind, the gulls are crying.

U.A. Fanthorpe 'After Visiting Hours'

Sorry - missed the boat

And me !

"Sorry - missed the boat"


No boats have been missed,
Though some may insist
On linear advances;
Why follow on
From one post alone,
When threads have multiple branches?

We spoke of love
In the posts above,
So why not again below?
Just say to which lines
Your answer inclines,
So the rest of us will know.


[orig.]

In the l960's they thought it hip
to sail away on a great big ship.
So family's split as some emigrated,
another arm of the tree is generated.
Now family's go to visit Sydney.
It costs an arm, a leg or even a kidney.



[orig]

That was fine - they all seemed pretty integrated to the general theme or mood to me


I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking


[John Masefield - Sea-Fever]

Sorry - typo - I must go down to the sea again...

"Sorry - typo - I must go down to the sea again..."

I think you were right the first time, Jab:
You must go down to the seas...

And, as this post ought to be in verse,
I'll just mention I've got fleas.

Fleas interest me so much
that I let them bite me for hours

Pablo Neruda

Snails, you're right, (now how peculiar,)
(apart from the fleas) - my thanks go to ya

Jab

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,"


God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!


[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, S. T. Coleridge.]

God save thee, ancient Mariner !
From the fiends, that plague thee thus !--
Why look'st thou so ?

[Coleridge > 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner']

Simul-post!

No real need to reference, I don't think. If the connection's there, we can make it, even if it's a couple of posts ago. These two could have applied to fleas too!