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Open Poetry #23

Minnow Run

regards2you
Member Elite

since 2002-10-01

Posts 3940
California

0 posted 2002-12-15 02:55 AM

Tranquil slow,
long, double-wide scow,
it's erector set boom, erect,
and,
pile driver weight, removed,
glides out unrippled channel,
lush wake obedient.

Twinkles spot sporadically
mirrored from above,
scatter at bow contact,
while low moon blinks
atop sliding
invisible cover.

A placid mile out,
tossed afloat,
lantern lights aglow,
bungied to plywood crosses
roped to black rubber tubes,

are,
dropped, splop, splop,
one after another
after another,
until there is a
necklace of zircon gems,
strung across horizon,
rising and falling
in undulating
gaudy beauty.

Now, bobbing lights,
smaller and smaller,
on the way back
to load nets on deck,
receive tanks, scrubbed,
ready for the serene return.

This, the first of many

minnow runs.

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2002-12-15 04:08 AM

I can see so much maturity in your writing...you have definately grown well.

regards2you
Member Elite

since 2002-10-01

Posts 3940
California

2 posted 2002-12-15 10:49 AM

Thank you. I'm working on it as time and energy allows. There is no joy greater than using areas of one's mind stymied and set aside by necessity of survival. Our formative years training and environmental influences can sometimes cause irreparable damage, to the greatest gift we human animals have, our creativity. And though all opinions are based on individual perceptions of 'how it was/is', everyone's reality is valid.

To thy own self, be true...in every sense of that statement, have I struggled, trying to bring sanity to the insane world into which my soul was tossed. And, breaking that pattern Phewww...what a trip!

I appreciate you taking note of my progress, it means a great deal to me.
Hugs, Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

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