Hi all
Can some one tell me who wrote a poem about the Titanic disaster from the Icebergs point of view. My friend read it about 20 years ago while at school but she can't remember who wrote it. Please can anyone help?
Is it this:-
The Destroyer
Out of the night it came, that menace of the seas,
Unmarked by sound and unobserved, its prey of souls to seize;
A pallid shape, dim in the fog, a monster, on it came.
And wallowed in the ocean path, its toll of deaths to claim.
All boasts of modern safeguards, mere affectations were;
Inventive minds it mocked and giant ships seemed dwarfs to her.
That mammoth ship, with armor plate, was but a cockle-shell,
And when its unseen hand reached out, with ease the giant fell.
And then it laughed; it closed its hand; then watched the work it wrought;
The frenzied screams of dying men, sweet music to it brought.
Unmoved it stood, with eager mien, while fifteen hundred souls
Went struggling down for evermore to rest in watery holes.
Its evil deed accomplished, it drew a conquering breath,
And all about the wreckage, a shadow cast-of Death.
The mightiest of giant ships had just obeyed its nod,
And fifteen hundred souls their final voyage made-to God.
I found it on [www.webtitanic.net]
Thomas Hardy: The convergence of the Twain, perhaps.
It is not from the berg's point of view compares the growth of both until they meet.
Was it a comic poem about a polar bear?
Have you got any news of the iceberg?
My family were on it you see.
Have you got any news of the iceberg?
They mean the whole world to me.
Written by Les Barker
Inspired by a cartoon by Bill Tidy
From Amazon
LES BARKER & OTHERS - GUIDE CATS FOR THE BLIND
The CD was produced to help raise money for The British Computer Association of the Blind. There are too many highlights on this wonderful collection to mention all of them. My personal favourites are the title track and 'Déjà vu', performed by Barker himself, while Terry Wogan performs 'Have you got any news of the iceberg', about a polar bear whose family was on the iceberg hit by the Titanic'
I began reading that poem found by Linda believing it was from the iceberg's point of view, and that the title and first stanza described the ship, and then realized that it's all about the iceberg after all. Pity. However it's a fine example of Bad Poetry. No author named on the site. Julia Moore perhaps?