<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cruising The Chesapeake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skyline fading in evening haze...<br>The air is warm and still...<br>Music lost in the sweltering heat - and<br>No one brave enough to dance<br>Although the beat is good.<br>Baltimore, we hail your flickering lights in the <br>Distance as we graduate toward your land marks...<br>Ft. McHenry first - we salute you! <br>Bouys flash caution while smoke and night<br>Darken the sky...<br>Waves whisper as we cruise - no air to prod them<br>On to loud conversation! <br>Baltimore skyline, <br>Shadows etched in dark and light harmony...<br>No breeze echoes the crowd but light laughter<br>Makes the evening sweet.<br>Card players top side...slap - slap...<br>No other motion in that corner...<br>Wind indicator tells a sad tale but we trail<br>The water path gallantly waving at the<br>Silhouettes of independent boaters...<br>Baltimore, we approach your newness in mortar and steel<br>The 'leg of 695' someone says.<br>I had the urge to sing The Star Spangled Banner...The Francis<br>Scott Key Bridge so magnificently beautiful before us<br>Like a giant erector set...<br>We cruise under and everyone becomes historian...<br>Tour lecturers from every corner...<br>'Fragile beauty' one gent exclaimed! <br>A coast guard cutter coursed behind us in the<br>Gentle waters...Its whistle bade us 'Hello! '<br>Baltimore, you beautiful, beautiful lady, <br>Tonight we love you still - though you've bottled<br>Your air elsewhere...<br>Perhaps in the city streets...<br>A speed boat turns to follow and tease us<br>He has conquered air, water and sky with his freedom.<br>Ft. Carroll - electronic day light in our focus<br>Then, <br>Sparrows Point! <br>We turn<br>And at last<br>A breeze! <br>We capture it in the grab bags of our lungs<br>Heading home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dorothy+Holmes">Dorothy Holmes</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=549333" data-title="Cruising The Chesapeake de Dorothy Holmes" data-description="Skyline fading in evening haze... The air is warm and still... Music lost in the sweltering heat - and No one brave enough to dance Although the beat is good. Baltimore, we hail your flickering lights in the Distance as we graduate toward your la..."></div> </div> </div>

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