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Open Poetry #31

A Motorboat Moment

Ivy Rose
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

0 posted 2004-02-22 10:08 PM

I stand at the threshold of a New Hampshire camp.
The door of opportunity opening wide.
My heart splashing in the lake at the camp's edge
to the quiet, purring of a boat's engine.

My grandfather is sitting at the helm
guiding the motorboat along blue-gray inlets,
rivulets of water streaming down my face
mingling with the joy, the thrill, of the ride.

Circling round, the lake's cresting waters break
as my fingers dangle in love's gathering eddies.
I hide myself in my grandfather's generous smile
while he revs up the motor, and the boat flies.

I am racing towards the edge of ecstasy,
leaning against my father's warm and comforting chest.
My heart responding to the water's call. Like my grandfather,
responding to the knock of Jesus at his heart's door.

I am, forever, speeding towards a new destination,
skimming across the lake's glossy, surface. I am never adrift.
My mind secure in this one moment of marine memory
where my grandfather always guides my boat back to the shore.

passing shadows
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