Poetry Blog No 153 As Some Poor Single Sailor- Sonnet

AS SOME POOR SINGLE SAILOR

The plain statement of feeling or emotion while it has its uses is not the role of art in that art attempts to evoke feeling through imaginative suggestion and form rather than simply state it. In doing so it hopes to cause us to feel and "experience" rather than merely note something. Sometimes the following of s strict form, for example a sonnet, enhances this process both for the creator and receiver of the work. Non vocal music is perhaps the supreme example of a form without a direct meaning being able, nevertheless, to evoke feelings in its audience.

AS SOME POOR SINGLE SAILOR

As some poor single sailor left adrift

Upon the widths of vast and chartless sea

Despairs of ever finding rescue's gift,

So when he is discovered and set free

He cannot quite believe good fortune's sight;

It's so for me: within a general strife

Of pathless ways you came like rescue's light

Within the common darkness of my life

And left me still incredulous that I

Could find such sudden fortune on my way-

Like one who's beckoned by bright jewels that lie

There at his dusty feet some sun-drenched day.

    So like some single sailor left adrift,

    I wonder at love's wonder-living gift.