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Poetry Poem: The Pirate
A ship it came a sailing across far and distant sea
Aboard she carried treasure,
On board she carried me
The masts of pine the hull was oak
From our guns flashed clouds of smoke
The heat of flame, the roar and blast
Those balls of iron ripped back the mast
Tore the rigging from the following brig
Proud she flew the Royal Marine
The captain a servant to his distant Queen.
Pirates we were to a noble cause
Flown the lash
For the free lived life
We fought the law
We fought the strife
We fought for gold
With blade and knife
To live the way of inequity
Of the winds free pull
On sail and tack
White spume flung from bow to deck
Treasure we sought
Doubloons of gold
Those Spanish ships
carried deep in the Hold
We had had the fight in the Caribbean Sea
Musket shot taken away my knee
The wooden thump of my right leg stump
Across the forecastle
The hard wooden bump
To my blinded eye and that black blue beard
My whip it was those seamen feared
My men were hard as a weeviled cracker
Broken knuckle they fought for life
Killed and maimed they drank and drowned
Freedom, is not what we found.
Still to the trick of the passage done
My memories curl with the pipe smoke air
Thump now drums the cottage stair
As I slurp hot tea before the bed
Wearily done now lay my head.
