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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-07-14 11:03 AM

Eve on Columbia
Virginia Salter

bowl filled with idle sailboats
rests beside mighty Columbia
flooded in week-day blues

week-end jet sets
members of the working class
leave them moored

until they can slip in
slip out, sail away
into fluid dreams

on breezes
that shall surely return
and bring them ‘round

© July 25, 2000

Titia Geertman
Member Ascendant

since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

1 posted 2001-07-15 07:31 AM

Think I understand (with my simple Dutch mind

) and like it.

Oh well, my simple Dutch mind couldn't even get the grin in right, LOL I have my eyes open but am I awake

????

Titia

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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-07-15 10:47 AM

hmmm, I guess it could be that some would not quite figure out the images I was describing. Thanks for reading and commenting. Was your idea that the sailboats were moored in a round, bowl shaped area, during the week, waiting for the week-end sailor/s to return and take them out to the open river? If so, you got it right.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

3 posted 2001-07-15 05:57 PM

Virginia, living on the ocean, and seeing the cruise ships and smaller crafts moored at English Bay, waiting for the weekend crowds, I fully understood and thoroughly enjoyed, thank you.

~If you have a choice to sit down or dance, I hope that you dance~

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2001-07-15 06:24 PM

Yes, Virginia...that is exactly what I saw! Well done!

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-07-15 09:09 PM

I have seen this many times and various places I have been too. I tend to always go to the water because it calms and soothes me. Very nice!

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

6 posted 2001-07-15 09:15 PM

thank you all, very much!

I am so glad this was more familiar to those who've had the experience of the water's edge, thanks for the encouragement.

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