Yellow leaves tiptoe across tattered shoreline.
Liquid lace veils the gray lake from view.
Migrating geese treat the morning stillness to music
Bidding the first shy tendrils of pink light to dance
In ethereal joy to their wild remembered song.
Time suspended whispers meanings –
Quite forgetting to move on
A deer furtively sidles down to quench it’s thirst
Punctuating the sand with quotation marks
It raises fathomless brown eyes as a fish jumps.
Tiredly the old man moves his shoulders
With his measured habitual tasting of dry lips
He listens as one more day begins to unravel
And as he pushes his small boat into the wet
He smiles, his hand resting on the soft ears
Of his dog.
A contest entry
- Paint me a Picture by Dryad Enya.
460 points, ended September 12, 24 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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This is lovely, the peacfull dainty piece is sophisticated and elegant. I am placing it in the finalist list because I expect it will do very well. Your up against some tough entries but the marvell of this is still washing over me. You all did fantastic, you imparticular have captured my imagination to make me yern to be in the scene!
Well done,
best of luck & keep writting
Dryad Enya
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This is a fantastic poem! It makes you feel as if time really were suspended. Imagery is beautiful and poem flows from start to finish. Congratulations on an amazing write!!
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A picture well painted with the artful use of words. A relaxing read.
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