The Last Captain (in Response to the Rhyming Words Challenge by Chris Mills)
Rinita is a creative writer, with focus on poetry. She delves into several forms including Haiku/Senryu, Sonnets, Free Verse, and Prose.
Background
A fellow hubber Ann's response took me to the original challenge by Chris.
The challenge was about using the following words in a poem that have no apparent rhyming words, and finding the closest words that rhyme with them.
- silver
- purple
- month
- ninth
- pint
- wolf
- opus
- dangerous
- marathon
- discombobulate
Whenever I hear the word silver, it reminds me not of the shiny metal, but of the character Long John Silver, from the classic "Treasure Island". I always had a wish to offer a tribute in my own way to Stevenson's most popular work, and now I got my chance, thanks to this challenge.
The Pirate Ship
The Poem
His name was Long John Silver
As the dawn turned to dusk
His blabber became glibber
On the grill, he was intense
A deceived chop, with sauce purple
Beets he placed instead of meat
Made the crew’s mouths gurgle
They sailed on the fourth month
Anchored on the ninth
At the island hundred-and-oneth
The treasure may not bind
John’s mean men went deep
From the forest howled a wolf
Gripping his wooden leg
John made a maddening swoop
Out came hares and boars
The pirates danced, fine dined
Barrels of rum de-boarded
All got more than a pint
No treasure and barrels empty
John’s crew set sail
Battling through tides dangerous
The ambience on board mutinous
It all happened at midnight
Rebel loose, the men broke
John’s wooden leg askew
A new voyage, a new marathon
Began with the new dawn
A new captain to be named
A new chef to lay the fire
The story narrated by my niece
Got my mind to discombobulate
Fierce drama, in a little mind
Fire in a glass, did encapsulate
I sit here, by my warm hearth
Dedicating a piece of the opus
To the last of the bold pirates
John, the captain ferocious
© 2018 Rinita Sen
