I.
Thor Heyerdahl
had us all in thrall
with his journey in a leaky
boat called the Kon-Tiki.


II.
Captain John Smith
made landfall with
some doubts: "This will daunt us..."
till he met Pocahontas.


III.
Mr. Charles Lindbergh
was no August Strindberg -
wrote no plays, but flew solo,
so low he could play water polo.

04/26/2015

Author's Note: Day 25 dual prompt: (1) Write an "across the sea" poem, and (2) write a "clerihew", which is a four-line poem with rhyme scheme AABB, where the first line is the name of a famous person and the rest of the poem describes him/her in a humorous way.

Posted on 04/26/2015
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