I met Harold on the Independence

Winning The War Within is a collection of original sonnets written precisely in Shakespearean iambic pentameter but minus punctuation. These sonnets are a progressive poetic autobiography. The Independence was a ship owned by American Export Lines. It plied the route between NYC and the Mediterranean during the 1950s.

From Growing Up

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I met Harold on the Independence

He played the oboe for the New York Phil

Those were days of casual resplendence

When things just seemed to happen as things will

Harold taught me life has two dimensions

We said we’d meet in Capri and we did

I chose one of those small uphill pensions

At night it seemed that not one star was hid

He taught me to paint by doing nothing

And now the painting’s lost and so is he

Still I know I’m holding on to something

The knowledge of the work that set him free

Six hours of arduous practice every day

Small price a precious freedom who will pay

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Stephen C. Rose has written a number of books (Fiction/Non-fiction). You can tweet him here.

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