009. First Landing Comments

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Stunning imagery a nice poem

First landing is really a nice and sweet poem my dear son. Your effort in this poem is very much expressive. May God bless you.

I like this poem very much! It's a slice of a much larger story - that of an odyssey, the sea voyage of discoveries of both the world without and the world within. Of course, this is just a slice of that mega-subject and it is self-contained. It has an admirable objectivity, describing the arrival and docking of the ship in technical terms that are vivid and complete. You thus permit the reader like myself who is caught up in the romance of the sea and the symbolism of the sea voyage to project onto your realistic scene. BTW I have NEVER taken a sea voyage, but I love the metaphor itself. Walt Whitman created a stunning version in PASSAGE TO INDIA which Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music in his SEA SYMPHONY. His music is stunning, too!