Sailing The Swings

Published by Family Friend Poems December 2021 with permission of the Author.

Arrgh! I’m a pirate.
I sail salty seas,

searching for ships,
at the whim of the breeze.

I ride rolling waves
up and down, night and day.

I head for the clouds.
I plunge through the spray.

Me, and my parrot,
every soul I command,

we rise and we fall
until we hit land.

ABOUT THE POET:

Elizabeth Steinglass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Her book Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer includes 22 poems about all aspects of the game. You can also find her work in many anthologies, such as in A World Full of Poems, edited by Sylvia Vardell, The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, and The Poetry of US, edited by J. Patrick Lewis. She lives in Washington, DC, where she enjoys walking in the woods, writing poetry, and spending time with her family. For more information visit www.ElizabethSteinglass.com.

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