Nightsky absconded with moon
and left no forwarding address.
Gaia’s APB has gleaned zilch.
There’s no other way to take it but personally…
Designed with streamlined hopes, she was
a vessel built for pleasure and redemption;
now abandoned, parched in persistent gloom.
She’s beached, far from home, with rusting chains,
and warping wood, her finish long etched away
by sea salt, petrochemical residue, and acid rain.
Seabird fly-bys and hermit crab wanders against
thundered surf keep sensory inertia at bay; yet
her framework thins day after day.
Carrie is today’s host of The Sunday Muse.
Tao Talk 
That opening line…👌🏼
The poem resonated and you know why. 🙂❤️
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Thank you so much, Punam ❤
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My pleasure. 🙂
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“And I know Martin Eden is gonna be proud of me/ and many before me been called by the sea…” –Tom Waits
Happy 4th, my friend.
–Shay
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Great quote, Shay! Thank you 🙂
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This is a beautiful and deep capturing of the image Lisa! Wishing you a peaceful and lovely weekend with no stress!
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Carrie, thank you very much! Wishing you a wonderful long weekend!
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You’ll set sail again Lisa!
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lol that remains to be seen, Rob!
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“Nightsky absconded with moon” …you can’t get any better than that.
Happy 4th Lisa!
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Happy 4th, Max! Thanks 🙂
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Happy 4th Lisa!
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Lisa, the images you poem evokes is really commendable.
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Thank you, Sunita 🙂
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a most descriptive ekphrastic Lisa with the same lovely lines as this boat even though she is “parched in persistent gloom.”
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Thanks Laura.
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The abandonment just lodges right in the heart. Moving (and really makes me want to give the boat a hug…).
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Wyndolynne, thank you for your kind comment.
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Great write! My favorite line … Gaia’s APB has gleaned zilch!!!
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🙂 Mine too! Thank you, Helen.
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LOL! Nice!
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Thanks, Q!
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Pretty sorry boat, huh?
Not much else could be wrong although you seem as though there were oodles more.
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The word coming to mind is clusterf*ck….
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Cry tears for “far from home”
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ekphrasis with attitide ~
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or attitude, if I could spell ~
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🙂 attitide works
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Beached. Such a full image. May the tides turn…
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“parched in persistent gloom” is great!–I was listening to the HIstory of English podcast about how “rhyming” worked in Old Norse poetry, namely through alliteration and assonance rather than vowel-matching, and this phrase just nails the concept.
Also–thanks for the lead (inadvertant though it may have been) to TSM!
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Alexandra thank you for the feedback. Very neat it has that linkage. Yay! on you will be writing at TSM 🙂
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Love the words and I would love to have that in my yard 🙂
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Yes! I’d have wave petunias flowing out of it, blue and white if possible 🙂
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