Poetry, "A Book of Pirates"
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morgynleriMore of my trying to consolidate some of my writing. Particularly stuff from my other journal, and from the DLC, since I don't really post there anymore, and tend to forget I even stuff posted. Sometimes, anyway. So, poems that I posted at the DLC.
The Black Pearl
A poem from the point of view of the ship, written almost three years ago. A take on what the Pearl's reaction, should Norrington have succeeded in catching and hanging Captain Jack Sparrow.
Hello, good Captain Jack
My brave and bonny Sparrow
What does catch your fancy
And takes you from my side?
My sweet and gentle love
Bold and brash, my pirate
What takes you from the swell
Steals you from the sea?
Where are you, my captain?
Why do you not return?
My deck stands empty and cold
Your cabin lies in a wreck.
The rum is drying in the hold
The sails sag and do not fill
My eyes weep salt tears
For my love far away
What is this they bring,
These sad and ragged folk?
Who are these to come to me
And bring not my captain back?
What is this, your dark eyes
Can they not see my beauty?
Your hands forever stilled
No longer to turn the wheel?
Ah, no! Tell me this isn't real!
My captain, my captain, no,
Tell me you will sail with me
Tell me I am your Pearl again
Who has done this to you,
Who has killed my captain?
Why have they taken him away?
Where did they take him from me?
Oh, my broken little Sparrow
My bold and bonny little bird
Never again to walk my decks
To sail the swell with me
Bring me a brand, a fiery grave
Take me down to the depths
I do not wish to sail again
Under another captain, never.
Bring me a storm, the sea's wrath
Let it take me down
Into its welcoming grasp
And let me see my captain again.
~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~
The Sea's Crown Jewel
One in which Will and Elizabeth are married, and Norrington is not exactly happy with letting Jack continue to exist as he arrives in Port Royal for a very important day to the Turners.
The port town sleeping quiet
As infamy's child by the dockside comes
Slipping through dark shadows
His feet rolling as on the deck still
His hands uncommonly quiet
Though his eyes gleam with laughter
Traced about with the night sky
Quiet as the stars gleaming bright
Infamy's child dips through a door
Into the muted red glow and heat
Like the hell the clerics teach
But not this place, not this time
Where friends wait with warm welcome
A brave woman and one good man
A drink of sweet, dark intoxication
Voices sitting around in dim lights
A child's piercing cry of hunger,
Gently shushed by a delicate hand
Before a question asked of infamy's child
To which a smile spreads in surprise
And a voice replies 'Aye'
Tomorrow comes the time to be
In the light of a summer's heated day
Seen about the port town
Infamy's child to walk the crowded street
Safe from the steel of royal might
But one day for one good man
The hand of death shall be stayed
In the rainbow of Heaven's own light
Stands the brave woman with her cascade
Of dark-haired and dark-eyed delight
The one good man standing at her side
Beckoning forward infamy's child
Who stands on the edge, suddenly unsure
Of the steel of royal might also there
'Safe passage but a day' is what he hears
And he steps inside the rainbow lights
Looking down to see a cooing girl-child
'What name' asks the servant of Light
And in reply is given 'Jacqueline'
Infamy's child smiles, to the jewel of the sea
A name most will know for whom was given
Once again leaving the port town in day
Goes infamy's child with a light heart
His lover firm beneath his rolling feet
His mistress spread to the horizon wide
A whistled tune haunts the filling sails
And drifts back to one good man,
His brave woman and the sea's crown jewel
~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~
I'll Not Wait For Any Man
A pirate/sea pairing type of story, Anamaria's POV. With the implication she'd be interested in a little bit of action with Jack. If he notices her.
The sea's a harsh mistress
A ship a captain's first love
But where upon the sea swell
Does a man find his heart?
I watch you as you whistle
As you sail, as you sleep
Yet do you ever notice I exist
But when you're too drunk to care?
Come, my captain, can't you see
The woman in front of your eyes?
Or do I simply demand your debt
And leave you to see me too late?
I won't wait forever, certainly
I won't wait much longer, I can't
I want you, or my own ship, and now
I'm not a patient woman, you see.
But you don't notice
You always are looking to the sea
Looking to the wide horizon
But never in front of your eyes.
Goodbye, Captain Sparrow,
I wish you and your lover well
Give me back my mistress the sea
My lover, my ship beneath my feet
I am a pirate, and a woman, both
I bow to no man, but share with him
If he but sees the deal I offer
And you did not, Sparrow, savvy.
So I bid farewell and good luck
Safe juorney, and perhaps more
Maybe a woman to make you see
More than the far horizon of endless ocean.
~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~
Lady of the Sea
Mr. Gibbs waxes poetic about the Black Pearl and her captain after the events of Dead Man's Chest. Another of those where the connection between captain and ship is more than just a simple fact of ownership.
A grand old lady of the sea, that's what she is
With black-bellied sails coursing before the wind
Spray misting off her bow,
And naught but the horizon spread before her
Not for her the measured tread of military boots
Or the drudgery of a merchant's runs to and fro
Not her or her captain
They sail free before the wind, like fey spirits of old
Not even the sea or Davy Jones himself can tame her
Kraken might catch, but can't kill captain or ship
Not Captain Jack Sparrow
He'd laugh in the face of the devil himself
Crazy as any fox, and a crafty bugger he is
And his madness is catching, I know that
Else I'd not be here
Searching, even if I have to sail to hell and back
We'll get them back, that brave lady and her captain
And we'll fight Davy Jones for them tooth and nail
Aye, and I've another score as well
That I'll settle with a cutlass and the dead man later
All to see one ship sailing for the wide horizon
With her captain at her wheel, and sails full of the wind
No one to drag her down
Aye, and perhaps myself on her decks once more
A poem from the point of view of the ship, written almost three years ago. A take on what the Pearl's reaction, should Norrington have succeeded in catching and hanging Captain Jack Sparrow.
Hello, good Captain Jack
My brave and bonny Sparrow
What does catch your fancy
And takes you from my side?
My sweet and gentle love
Bold and brash, my pirate
What takes you from the swell
Steals you from the sea?
Where are you, my captain?
Why do you not return?
My deck stands empty and cold
Your cabin lies in a wreck.
The rum is drying in the hold
The sails sag and do not fill
My eyes weep salt tears
For my love far away
What is this they bring,
These sad and ragged folk?
Who are these to come to me
And bring not my captain back?
What is this, your dark eyes
Can they not see my beauty?
Your hands forever stilled
No longer to turn the wheel?
Ah, no! Tell me this isn't real!
My captain, my captain, no,
Tell me you will sail with me
Tell me I am your Pearl again
Who has done this to you,
Who has killed my captain?
Why have they taken him away?
Where did they take him from me?
Oh, my broken little Sparrow
My bold and bonny little bird
Never again to walk my decks
To sail the swell with me
Bring me a brand, a fiery grave
Take me down to the depths
I do not wish to sail again
Under another captain, never.
Bring me a storm, the sea's wrath
Let it take me down
Into its welcoming grasp
And let me see my captain again.
The Sea's Crown Jewel
One in which Will and Elizabeth are married, and Norrington is not exactly happy with letting Jack continue to exist as he arrives in Port Royal for a very important day to the Turners.
The port town sleeping quiet
As infamy's child by the dockside comes
Slipping through dark shadows
His feet rolling as on the deck still
His hands uncommonly quiet
Though his eyes gleam with laughter
Traced about with the night sky
Quiet as the stars gleaming bright
Infamy's child dips through a door
Into the muted red glow and heat
Like the hell the clerics teach
But not this place, not this time
Where friends wait with warm welcome
A brave woman and one good man
A drink of sweet, dark intoxication
Voices sitting around in dim lights
A child's piercing cry of hunger,
Gently shushed by a delicate hand
Before a question asked of infamy's child
To which a smile spreads in surprise
And a voice replies 'Aye'
Tomorrow comes the time to be
In the light of a summer's heated day
Seen about the port town
Infamy's child to walk the crowded street
Safe from the steel of royal might
But one day for one good man
The hand of death shall be stayed
In the rainbow of Heaven's own light
Stands the brave woman with her cascade
Of dark-haired and dark-eyed delight
The one good man standing at her side
Beckoning forward infamy's child
Who stands on the edge, suddenly unsure
Of the steel of royal might also there
'Safe passage but a day' is what he hears
And he steps inside the rainbow lights
Looking down to see a cooing girl-child
'What name' asks the servant of Light
And in reply is given 'Jacqueline'
Infamy's child smiles, to the jewel of the sea
A name most will know for whom was given
Once again leaving the port town in day
Goes infamy's child with a light heart
His lover firm beneath his rolling feet
His mistress spread to the horizon wide
A whistled tune haunts the filling sails
And drifts back to one good man,
His brave woman and the sea's crown jewel
I'll Not Wait For Any Man
A pirate/sea pairing type of story, Anamaria's POV. With the implication she'd be interested in a little bit of action with Jack. If he notices her.
The sea's a harsh mistress
A ship a captain's first love
But where upon the sea swell
Does a man find his heart?
I watch you as you whistle
As you sail, as you sleep
Yet do you ever notice I exist
But when you're too drunk to care?
Come, my captain, can't you see
The woman in front of your eyes?
Or do I simply demand your debt
And leave you to see me too late?
I won't wait forever, certainly
I won't wait much longer, I can't
I want you, or my own ship, and now
I'm not a patient woman, you see.
But you don't notice
You always are looking to the sea
Looking to the wide horizon
But never in front of your eyes.
Goodbye, Captain Sparrow,
I wish you and your lover well
Give me back my mistress the sea
My lover, my ship beneath my feet
I am a pirate, and a woman, both
I bow to no man, but share with him
If he but sees the deal I offer
And you did not, Sparrow, savvy.
So I bid farewell and good luck
Safe juorney, and perhaps more
Maybe a woman to make you see
More than the far horizon of endless ocean.
Lady of the Sea
Mr. Gibbs waxes poetic about the Black Pearl and her captain after the events of Dead Man's Chest. Another of those where the connection between captain and ship is more than just a simple fact of ownership.
A grand old lady of the sea, that's what she is
With black-bellied sails coursing before the wind
Spray misting off her bow,
And naught but the horizon spread before her
Not for her the measured tread of military boots
Or the drudgery of a merchant's runs to and fro
Not her or her captain
They sail free before the wind, like fey spirits of old
Not even the sea or Davy Jones himself can tame her
Kraken might catch, but can't kill captain or ship
Not Captain Jack Sparrow
He'd laugh in the face of the devil himself
Crazy as any fox, and a crafty bugger he is
And his madness is catching, I know that
Else I'd not be here
Searching, even if I have to sail to hell and back
We'll get them back, that brave lady and her captain
And we'll fight Davy Jones for them tooth and nail
Aye, and I've another score as well
That I'll settle with a cutlass and the dead man later
All to see one ship sailing for the wide horizon
With her captain at her wheel, and sails full of the wind
No one to drag her down
Aye, and perhaps myself on her decks once more