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A Weathered Glass

A weathered glass in harbor deep reflects your eyes long gone from me and seals your watery grave. Sea shells sing you now to sleep, the weeds confess your memory within the bird-thronged cove. On wind-soughed days your voice I hear, its roughened cadence like a moan which mocks me with its edge of unresolved lament and fear; a shriek, a wail and then its gone to bottom in the sludge. My soul bemoans your tragedy, a life extinguished by your hand, condemned to Neptune's lair; consigned to quiver restlessly, ne'er again we'll tread the strand, a misbegotten pair. ******** ...a tribute to the poetry of Dylan Thomas.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 5/19/2015 5:46:00 PM
oh, so sad but so so beautiful, keith! i especially love the second verse and can hear that moan so clearly...
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Date: 5/19/2015 2:01:00 PM
The conscious mind extends itself beyond our expected norms and we enter a world composed of reality defused with imagination and love where happiness is tentative and so precious as to awe us with its beauty and scare us with its fragility. Emile. #7
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Date: 5/19/2015 1:41:00 PM
I like the depth of your work..It seems to speak of one lived who died at sea or the person's ashes maybe sprinkled on the ocean.. awesome work..Thanks for stopping by..Sara
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