Centuries guarding… <br />Wild stories, scary legends <br />…old and crusty whalers, <br /> <br />Long closeted skeletons, <br />And a pirate’s past <br />So full of shipwrecked <br /> <br />Ghost-sailors <br />Frightfully fluttering <br />Like salt-caked seagulls <br /> <br />Crying mournfully for bait <br />While a wicked wind scours <br />Those ancient stormy skies<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/found-bobbing-on-a-calmed-atlantic-sea/
