Hello, everyone! Now, I know not every person loves poetry - I didn't fall in love with it until I was thirteen and had to write one for school. Ever since then, poetry (good poetry) has had a special place in my heart.

This one was written for a Bonanza Ballad challenge on Bonanza Boomers. I chose the artist Lady Gaga and was given the song title "Look What I Found". I had to write a story or a poem using only the song title (not the lyrics) and this was what came to me.

Enjoy!


The Maiden With the Chestnut Hair

by Knowing Grace


Look what I found

By the ocean sea,

A whole new world

Waiting there for me.

And that world was tied

To a maiden fair:

To a captain's daughter

With a playful air.

*BZ*

It was merely chance

That I saw her there,

The maiden dancing

With the chestnut hair.

Her eyes were bright

And her laughter gay

As a schooner tossing

A sea foam spray.

*BZ*

She was wild and free

As the ocean tide

And her heart was deep

As the main* is wide.

She danced on the sand

To a secret tune

That only the gulls

and the seal folk knew.

*BZ*

She stole my soul

With her siren's spell

As a frigate caught

In a tempest's swell.

I was lost to her

To that beauty fine,

To that maiden romping

Near the deep blue brine*.

*BZ*

And she gave her heart

To this seaman poor

And made me richer

Than the kings of yore.

Though I lost her young –

My sea sprite fair –

I'll always love that maiden

With the chestnut hair.

~Finis


*Main is another word for the open ocean.

*Brine is another word for seawater.