Rhythmic Stories January 31, 2023

The Doldrums

The “doldrums” is a popular nautical term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless winds

The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is known to sailors worldwide as the doldrums. 

For us, it can be a period of inactivity or depression

Maybe an illness or occasional life aggression

Little or no winds, now stuck day after day

120-ton sailing vessel’s vacant winds keep it at bay

The Doldrums was not a popular place

You could see it on the captain and crew’s face

Stagnate and crushed by shiftless inactivity

Fights would break out, and the captain let it be

Calms, then storms, oh, those unpredictable winds

No Captain or seaman knew how to defend

Those unpredictable Doldrums

Climbing up the wall rungs

Thunderstorms and hurricanes break out

Raising their first to the heavens, they shout

We all experience the Doldrums that hold

Where her silent winds trap us in her windless mold

But the doldrums never last long

We’re back up sailing and whistling a song

Plotting a new course across the ocean blue

If you get caught in the doldrums, remember

you can navigate through 

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