White Sailors

Gold cherry

By onemorething

Fri, 06 Aug 2021
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The dead do not return, and

the living are always moving on;

we accommodate the hollows 

of these losses. 

The dunlins leave over uplands

of sedge and lichen, crowberry 

and green swords of pine.

Over black ocean,

they are driven to flight,

to be guests of mud and sand,

the marshes gather the flings,

impermanent shores

bear their peeped staccato.

Above, the clouds drift, ghosts,

white sailors -

my love is the sky, and so

it suffers these passages. 
 

 

Image is from here:https://tinyurl.com/49rs962a

Also on Twitter: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Constable_-_Cloud_Study_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

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Comments

Submitted by marandina on

Love the first couple of lines...and the last two lines...and the lines in between. Oh..it's a super poem! :)

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Ah, thank you Paul, that's very kind. I'm really glad you liked it. Little dunlins, sweet birds. :)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Embracing the spirit of your poem, gave a sense of movement, these birds relocating constantly, just like the clouds. Your passion for this bird shines through in your words.

Thank you for sharing.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thanks Jenny, and for reading it. They're very lovely birds. Mostly migrants here though there's a resident population in Scotland. Rachel :)

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

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

Submitted by onemorething on

Thank you so much! That's a very lovely surprise! Can only mean a gin and tonic...later, obviously... :)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I like "peeped staccato" very much, always find it hard describing bird sounds, but this is perfect, delicate

I would not dare to have the sky as a love :0) a surrogate parent perhaps

beautiful, rich poem

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thanks Di. That's very kind. :)

 

Submitted by stevepoet on

This is great. I like the spareness of the tone, which feels like a sky in itself.

Submitted by onemorething on

Oh, thank you! Happy you liked it. :)

 

Submitted by bhi on

beautifully measured from the opening lines to the stunning finish.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thank you! :)