The day after yesterday

Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

By hoalarg1

Fri, 30 Mar 2018
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17 comments
 

The ship had drifted for some time 
through emptying mists 
dawn’s horizon ahead
mouthing a vanilla hue
I casted shadow long behind
on millpond water
and I gripped this groaning mast 
felt the beat of a dying wind in its veins
starboard waters lapping me to standing sleep 
until gulls 
dipped and cornered and
begged this man to rise from his yesterdays, 
when this mast stood 
jellied limbs entwined in ivy embrace 
while sky's rancid rain emptied 
and every sinuous fibre of being 
splintered into the darkest of nights
faded from the faintest light 
and I
now rounding these islands
breath snatched back
hear my name humming between breezes
and harden it to memory, like salt to rock
between two waves of this sea.

Certificate U
Poem
Rainbow World
Spiritual
Nature

Comments

Submitted by airyfairy on

This beautiful and reflective poem is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!  Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.

Picture:  Wikimedia Commons

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is wonderful - I felt as if I was right there too. A well deserved pick!

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

 Thanks for the pick of the day and the cherries. A very nice surprise.

 

Submitted by hudsonmoon on

I love this. Will read it a couple of times more. It hit home with me in ways I can't put into words at the moment. Beautiful

Rich

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

 Thank you, Rich.

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Poem of the Month - Congratulations!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Brilliant!!! Well done hoalarg1.

Parson Thru

Submitted by Parson Thru on

It's what poetry is.

Parson Thru

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

Thanks a lot Parson, that's very kind of you.

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

Thank you very much for the Pick of the Month. A lovely surprise.

 

Submitted by hudsonmoon on

It was well deserved, hoalarg1. 

Rich

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

Thank you, Rich.

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Yes!

Submitted by catherine poarch on

Just found this. It's beautiful and I found the last few lines so moving. Congratulations.

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

Thank you for reading and finding the time to comment.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Read this again today.  Weirdly it is a different poem every time. Like a magic door. Today I realised it was the gulls which are the turning point, which I'd not noticed before. Maybe it's because there are so MANY  beautiful images crammed in my small brain gets short circuited :0)

So glad it's poem of the month

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

 Thank you very much for your comment. I'm glad it brought you back for a second read.