Viking Voyage <br /> <br /> <br />For lo! The forty four grey cast away <br />Fetters, mooring. Roaring past the old quay. <br />Flying, fleeing, sighing with unknown day <br />Far ahead. Frenzied eyes watched for the way <br /> <br />Showing the Way, rowing towards the far West, <br />Sunned with gulls, fecund with mountainous crests. <br />Slowing, rowers graveing ill with tiredness. <br />Shallow hope, fallow horizons' cruel test. <br /> <br />Then, with men exhausted, starving, the call! <br />That tiny branch floating briny waves tall! <br />The mens' eyes gleamed, streamed. New land welcomed all! <br />Tears amongst cheers, from Fathers in their Hall! <br /> <br />Voyagers of Old! Stories told this night! <br />Valhalla tested...not bested. Lands' sight!<br /><br />elysabeth faslund<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/invention-of-a-new-sonnet-form/
