NEW POEM, Sunday, August 18, 2013 : "Dancing On A Sailboat"

Sunday, august 18, 2013 @ 2;32 p.m.

let me try this. Instead of google docs I'll go straight to the blog to transpose and hopefully give the last few tweaks to a poem I have been working on. I love to do this on facebook as it seems to give me the extra added stress needed to do good and not too much at the same time. Somehow, even though folks can read my blog (I am still learning about privacy and may allow only this or that in the future???) it seems to be less stress to do well and not have to be perfect...here goes :

__________ "DANCING ON A SAILBOAT" __________

I had wanted to learn
                                  how to sail a boat

Such as those with small cabins
                                                  above open decks
for sleeping, dreaming, and loving

~~~~

I had wanted to learn
                                   how to swim rivers

For travelling, adventuring, and drowning

and for living and learning how not to drown

~~~~

I had wanted to learn how to dance
                                                        out in the open air

In company, with lovers, and then only with you

~~~~

I had wanted to learn
                                  how to love

My family, friends, lovers, a wife

In real life, neither while sleeping nor while dreaming

~~~~

I am learning how to dream while awakened

I am now swimming in rivers and not drowning

I shall dance on those boats of my dreamings

I shall sail on rivers while adventuring

 I shall live out my life loving you.

                    ~~~~ finish

Well, I hope y'all like it and i am going to try to copy this fast enough to paper to take to Minas Gallery for a reading at an open microphone session which also features Baltimore Poets : Clarinda Harriss, Michael Salczman and Steven Lehva. These are some fine judges, and friends, of good writing so let me see how ai measure up and gain some good advice..., thanks for reading..., Tim