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Eight stone three is an old English form of measuring weight. Our subject in the poem weights, 8 stone 3...which is approx 115 lbs. 

Eight Stone Three

I sketched your face in

the midst of a bleached sky

touching the cool wet sands

a great inhale lights the pipe

barefoot and loaded tonight.

Awaiting the rising red moon

ballerinas twirl on the sea wall.

Eight stone three drifting away

in foggy wispy ocean tendrils 

guided by ghosts of privateers.

Face expressionless; eyes cold

grass upon the sand dune quivers.

First, you're here; then gone away;

One day you’re bright; then you’re

just an orb of dull dying, gray light

as tears are lost in the falling rain, 

wretched days full of fears are here.

I'm sinking into the charcoal sketch

a note left in crayon upon the dash

justification as simple as loneliness

eight stone three melts into the sea.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021


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Date: 2/10/2021 9:00:00 AM
Great imagery and emotion.
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Ken Allan Dronsfield
Date: 2/10/2021 5:33:00 PM
Hello Juliet, I truly appreciate your reading my work. And leaving a most generous comment! Ken
Date: 2/2/2021 11:12:00 AM
well I am always learning something new, a joy to read such vivid description, I love poems about the sea as I live on a little Island, my fave line is 'Awaiting the rising red moon ballerinas twirl on the sea wall.', this is so wonderfully poetic:-) hugs jan xx
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Ken Allan Dronsfield
Date: 2/2/2021 12:39:00 PM
thank you so very much for your very kind comments. I enjoyed that line myself! Take care and enjoy a wonderfully creative new week! hugs, ken xx
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