<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473436" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Shanty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Shanty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will walk to where the open mass grave of <br>bleached sandstones is, the grave is flanked<br>by sober olive trees, which have silvery leaves <br>and in the breeze remind me of the Black Sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was on tank-ships walked on iron decks and <br>dreamt of sandy beaches, when ship docked<br>miles of pipes and oil refineries was on offer, <br>and lights of cities were always too far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Badly paid and far from home this was not <br>a song of a “Youngman Jansen’s life; a loss <br>of time if you ask me. The slam of an engine <br>door a watch over, the sea was isolation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ashore together fearful of wolves that circled <br>us looking for the weakest in the flock, drink <br>up it’s midnight the last launch back to our ship <br>in the bay is leaving now, yes, lost was time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep shadows in the vale trees are green again <br>as breeze dies, I’ll leave my past where it belongs <br>in the cupboard of the forgettable, I’m free now <br>and no longer a prisoner of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oskar+Hansen">Oskar Hansen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473436" data-title="A Shanty de Oskar Hansen" data-description="A Shanty. I will walk to where the open mass grave of bleached sandstones is, the grave is flanked by sober olive trees, which have silvery leaves and in the breeze remind me of the Black Sea. I was on tank-ships walked on iron decks and dr..."></div> </div> </div>

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