Broken bow twisted on the reef
Abandoned never forgotten
A dark soul adrift in deep winter seas
Watched horizons for signs of life
When luminous eyes signaled safe haven
Mark that august moon
Until this very moment
All the dawns to eternity
My heart to love and live
Begins and ends with you
Yet how can we share the joy of singing
Without learning our lines together first?
Afraid of secrets and wrong impressions
Doubts chart a treacherous course through
Straits of confusion and contradiction
Cast away in December squall
A fool to believe marooned on atoll
Banished bound in chains by vows of silence
Silk sails tattered against the tempest
Wave countless strands of love and anguish
Knotted a world apart
As the cry of my soul
Echoes for a thousand leagues beyond
My voice solitaire across the sea
Only we can breathe life into our song
Broken bow twisted on the reef
Abandoned never forgotten
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That is beautiful, George! 🙂
Thanks, Deb! Glad you liked it. 🙂
very lovely, George!
Thanks, Francina! Glad you enjoyed it!
nice piece…
Peace & Light
Thanks, Mira Jay! Pleased to hear from you!
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“Mark that august moon
Until this very moment
All the dawns to eternity
My heart to love and live
Begins and ends with you”
Just stunning, George!
Thanks, Lauren! I suppose that sequence is my favorite part, too.
Hi George, I was reading Monos again and I still find it as lovely as the previous times I read it. These lines are remarkable ones!
Doubts chart a treacherous course through
Straits of confusion and contradiction
Ciao, Francina
Thanks, Francina! Elated that you took the time to read through it again. If we would just dispel doubts and fears life would be much fuller and happier. On the other hand, lessons learned from these challenges can lead to greater wisdom.
Cheers!
Beautiful imagery George! Love it.
Thanks, Ingrid! Glad to hear.
Actually heading to Cowtown this weekend.
Very cool. What for?
Catching up with a cousin who is in town for business.
Hi George. I really loved this. A few years ago, a very close friend’s Dad died at sea in a yachting accident. He and the boat were never found. It was somewhere off the Queensland coast. I remember sitting on the beach here just north of Sydney and thinking about all the sand stretching up and down the Australian East Coast and felt like sifting through all that sand to find just any clue of where he ended up and to find out what had happened. In the end, we all just had to accept.
Your poem, or is it a song, was very moving! xx Rowena
Hi Rowena, thanks for recounting your story! It is one of undoubtedly profound experience.
Sometimes heartbreaks leave us absent of answers or even reasonable recourse. Yet a decision to accept is a decision to live, despite the circumstances and difficulties, to reach beyond heartache for whatever good life presents within the realm of maximum possibility.
Pleased to share this with you! George