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Poem by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill


Submarine


MY soul is a submarine.
My aspirations are torpedoes.
I will hide unseen
Beneath the surface of life
Watching for ships,
Dull, heavy-laden merchant ships,
Rust-eaten, grimy galleons of commerce
Wallowing with obese assurance,
Too sluggish to fear or wonder,
Mocked by the laughter of waves
And the spit of disdainful spray.
 
I will destroy them
Because the sea is beautiful.
 
That is why I lurk
Menacingly
In green depths.



Eugene Gladstone O'Neill


Eugene Gladstone O'Neill's other poems:
  1. Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's First Villanelle to His Ladye and Ye Difficulties Thereof
  2. A Regular Sort of a Guy
  3. Even As a Child
  4. To Winter
  5. It's Great When You Get in


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