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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2014-07-12 03:13 PM

No Man...

No man's an island, this much I confess,
Knowing, even so, how it must be.
Slowly shrinking unto a nothingness,
Eroding throughout eternity.

My love, my ocean, august and erect
I have stood watch for you over time.
But Time, itself, having fallen suspect
With a flattened tone off the chime,

Awards no semblence of stature once held,
But instead withers away resolve.
Till the deepest of fears and the last of hopes meld,
And I daily watch myself dissolve.

The winds, once gentle, now all seem to chill.
In sunlight, there's still haze on the sky.
This duty I've striven so long to fulfill,
A whisper on the waves washing by.

Still I will not question as refashioned maps
Tomorrow leave me clearly undrawn.
As, one by one the memories, too, will lapse
To the splendor of a vacant dawn.

Michael Anderson

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-07-12 04:05 PM

This grabbed my attention at the git-go

quote:
Slowly shrinking unto a nothingness,
Eroding throughout eternity.

I have watched Time give up the ghost and is nothing more than a river of forgotten dreams, they too are merely waiting and watching for those memories will wither and die.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2014-07-12 05:57 PM

Now this line was the one that did it for me

"As, one by one the memories, too, will lapse
To the splendor of a vacant dawn."

splendor of a vacant dawn is just killer!

Lori

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2014-07-12 07:39 PM

How lyrically soothing this is...I was hypnotized...

Write-on

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2014-07-12 08:12 PM

Your poem brings some closure..as far as closure goes.
The sorrow and emptiness is draining. I hope that doesn't sound cruel...
i think it is freeing to let go...i wish that for you.

As always your poetry is deeply felt.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2015-09-03 12:19 PM

nice writing...james

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