The North Shore Poets’ Forum will hold its Back to Autumn meeting on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ish, Beverly Public Library. Please join us for an informal discussion of any new poet you’ve discovered over the summer (or before that, even). You may also bring a poem or two for gentle critique.
But, we must leave time to map out the rest of our year, so please be prepared with ideas for presentations that help us in our craft.
I look forward to a great meeting! And, until then, as is my custom, I leave you with a poem I like, this one by John Masefield, called Sea Fever.
Sea Fever
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,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
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