{"id":8804,"date":"2021-09-30T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:04:06","slug":"victory-a-new-poem-from-a-poet-who-now-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/victory-a-new-poem-from-a-poet-who-now-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory a new poem from a poet who now sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victory<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sketched for a minute and drew a hunched figure in a cloak<\/p>\n

The figure was looking into a valley<\/p>\n

The title of this sketch was Victory<\/p>\n

Have you written any further poems?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes<\/em><\/p>\n

There is only one
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May I see it?<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a slightly mysterious and maybe nostalgic poem
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

But I do not think it is very good<\/em><\/p>\n

I prefer my poem called Victory which accompanied the sketch
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Would you read your poem to me?
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Yes I will
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What is it called?<\/em><\/p>\n

Ceremonies at Sea
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During my years as a sailor
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I never liked ceremonies at sea
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As I found them foolish and trivial
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But now that I have retired
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

I often sit in my sea house
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And listen to the music of the waves
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And find out that I was quite mistaken
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I rather liked your poem
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It is your choice but I have always found it rather lightweight and simple
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I thought that the character resembled Captain Cat in Under Milk Wood and that is why I decided not to publish it
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There are similarities but your character is totally different
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If you say so
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Where did you set your poem?<\/em><\/p>\n

Where was the captain living in his retirement?<\/em><\/p>\n

I never said that he was a captain
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I agree
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He might have just been a simple merchant seaman
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Now retired
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Yes
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And looking out to sea with a little nostalgia
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Yes and that is the poems weakness
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I think that is the poems strength
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That is your opinion
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Your poem reminds me of my childhood
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When I was a child my parents often took me to a small coastal village called Torcross in South Devon
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Have you heard of it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes it is near Dartmouth I believe
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It was a dreamlike place in the summer although it often was damaged by storms in the winter
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I used to sit there with my sister
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Creating sandcastles?
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No it was mainly a stony beach
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And we would both look out to sea and make up stories of daring and adventure
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You poem reminded me of those days
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Were there any retired sea captains?
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Alas no
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I did not see any retired sea captains or for that matter retired sailors
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Maybe they retired inland as they were tired of the sea
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Nobody can tire of the sea and that is why so many people write poems about it
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Victory I sketched for a minute and drew a hunched figure in a cloak The figure was looking into a valley The title of this sketch was Victory Have you written any further poems? Yes There is only one May I see it? It is a slightly mysterious and maybe nostalgic poem But I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}