Forty words:
Many fair poems drown in the sea
from the 'unread unpublished 'gallery.
Who knows a poem's destiny?
Too many sonnets are signed 'anon'
the writer disappearing like a song.
Wherever would Shakespeare be today
if he'd written the anonymous way?
Joyce Hemsley
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lost-in-the-sea/
