Sail

Weekly Challenges

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Sail

Deadline

Imagine that you could sail anywhere in the world. Where would you go? Who would join you? Would you go alone? Describe the experience.

[Photo: "Sailing," YWP archives]

Submissions

  • Sailing

    If I could sail

    I'd sail away

    Far away

    I'd sail away from this place

    But I wouldn't go to another

    I would stay in between

    Refusing to stay

    Refusing to go

    If I could sail

  • prescription (go sailing)

    sometimes i think just one sunny day would cure me of everything.

    other days i think pills and tonics and treatments are lies that i continue to swallow.

    most days i just daydream about last summer when our tiny sunfish 

  • fruitless travel

    i want to go to a place that doesn't exist.

    i want to go to a place that will never come.

    i want to go to a place that is nowhere.

     

    Or maybe i don't want to go to a place.

     

  • A simple wish

    A simple wish, really

    nothing much

    nowhere far

    no crazy place

    a simple, domestic idea, I guess.

    A small boat, really

    nothing much

    nowhere far

    not for too long

    a single day, I guess.