Rms titanic

[Biggus]

The finest ship of the White Star Line,
Titanic majestically sailed the brine
A floating palace of opulence
A thing of beauty and elegance

But beauty is but a fragile veneer
And conceals a truth more austere
Into the depths Europe’s poor, are thrust
Travelling in steerage like human ballast

The iceberg cut her stem to stern
But at first no one showed concern
Except the poor below the waterline
Where it quickly filled with Icy brine

“Only God himself could sink her”
It was claimed by an unknown author
The Titanic promoted by J. Bruce Ismay
Quickly sank to his utter dismay

[MystyrMystyry]

Well done Biggus - are you familiar with the novel that appeared a few years before she sank? A ship called the Titan hailed as unsinkable, sailing the same route and striking the most southerly iceberg ever known, and...

[Biggus]

Thank you

[Jerrybaldy]

Hello Biggus.
your poetry is poetry as I remember it ,describing events in poetic form, there is little of that on here and as such you are an original voice and I enjoy reading your work.

[deryk]

I really enjoyed how the poem establishes its subject as though it has every moral obligation to sink and then you terminate that subject with the fateful quote.

[Biggus]

Thanks Jerrybaldy you are most kind

[Biggus]

Thanks Deryk