A Really Awful Stay

 

For Wordle 296 (a tough one to do in order and in rhyme — I’ve added far more than my usual tally of words).

Thrum of the rig as stay snaps at the deck;

Disaster is courted off Florida Keys;

Hollow the wish that the stay’d had a check

Rows of lethal gale-whipped flying glass one flees;

Crew fight to strip the sails before they split,

And jury-rig a stay before the next hit.

I also wanted this to add to my GloPoWriMo tally, and when double-checking to see how far short I am falling of the 30 poems in 30 days, wondered why there was one missing.  Alas, it seems I had previewed this one but never posted it!  *bashes head against wall*

© April 2017 Colonialist

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