Soothing-ness of Writing

Oh Hi Everyone!!

Sorry for the long wait between blog posts. It was one hellish week last week!

So, after being very stressed this past week and a depressing start to this week I decided to write. Writing to me is very soothing and is an outlet to all the feelings I'm keeping couped up inside. So, me being the nerdy person I am, I have a poem that I wrote while relaxing after the past week. It was actually based on this idea from a fiction book I read a couple years back. You see, in the book, it was a time before writing and this one girl was about to travel far from home. Her mother, having made the same trip before, had a song for her daughter, providing directions.

So this is my Travel Song. It's in ballad form and uses iambic tetrameter. Here we go!


Lay down the sweet sawed planks of Earth
Walk up the braids of rope
Push off the dock to fairly part
And pray for Sur’s new hope

Turn right for left and left for right
Beware of Mermaid’s Cove
You have left our Serpent’s Coil
Head East for Hoarder’s Drove

Swing West for open waves of sea
Sway North for biting ice
Row South for hidden Serpents Bay
Do not forget your Dice

Come back with treasures of renown
Laden down with heavy gold
Return with each sun silver haired
Lay not down in the cold

So far the weary traveler
Doth go to seek Brave
Fair thee well, oh travelers dear
We watch for Chaos Rave

Sail on! Do not look backwards for
So much to see ahead
Hands Aboard! Tie the ropes do down fast
To search for River’s Head

Lay down the sweet sawed planks of Earth
Walk up the braids of rope
Push off the dock to fairly part
And pray for Sur’s new hope