Ships of States
What is poetry?
craft carved from hard words and soft,
coloured for the eye and sounded well,
and polished along the true,
tacked with perfume and fathomed for a spell.
argosy launched from the mire of mind
to sail in auditors’ ears,
and float in currents of readers’ specific
memory, bliss and tears.
tender (legal or outlaw) convoyed from hand to hand
rich koine valued by someone new
or poems pocketed lying idle
lost change hiding in plain view.
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Ted Witham
Joint Winner WA Poets’ 2018 Occasional Poetry Prize.
Mind Journeys 
I enjoyed that Ted. Congratulations on the award 🏆
Thank you, Lorraine.
Love the word play Ted, very clever.