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.
