Awaiting Reality - Tri

Through autumn morning's misty pall
like luffing sails on ancient ships
and blinding fog in which we crawl
to moor our hopes in empty slips.

Like luffing sails on ancient ships,
the billows drift just off the coasts
much like the hauntings of gray ghosts.

And blinding fog in which we crawl,
a stage where nothing seems quite real
except the silence that we feel.

To moor our hopes in empty slips
where only silhouettes remain
   ~ await reality again...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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October 9, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Congratulations on a well deserved win. Your poem takes us through the uncertainty and nostalgia that we humans experience while pinning our hopes and navigating blindly through empty promises as it were. But on a positive note when we intuit reality the signal has already gone out into the quantum field and it’s already happened. Maria
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October 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
This is an definitely worthy of its top placement, Craig! Awaiting reality is already reality in itself...the reality of fine poetry! Congratulations // paul
Canerdy Avatar
October 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Craig, a huge CONGRATS on your well-deserved win in my contest. Love the figures of speech! Janice
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