Verge


Sad ocean, verged against
this faded sky, you breathe
a quiet reproach of clouds.

The vast night shivers,
bone cold, deep, and
blue as the universe’s ghost.


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8 comments:

  1. Short link - http://bit.ly/s4verge

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  2. nice use of verged...border...had to look it up...i like that...blue as the universes ghost, very nice.

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  3. the ocean with all its poplution...still blue from a distance...the tie to the universes ghost ..haunting...bkm

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  4. Beautiful, tight, vivid poetry!

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  6. Investing the natural world with emotion and soul, and beautifully. The second stanza makes an exceptionally strong finish.

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  7. A momentary feeling
    A glimpse at the compendium
    Of a man's sweep
    Blessed with the ability
    To catch the changes

    OneLove--Tiger Windwalker

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  8. I like the way how you put in context the ocean and the sky : "Sad ocean, verged against
    this faded sky..." Beautiful shot

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For you I wish that these poems were rubies, borne by my own caravan from Xi'an out of Shaanxi, through Persia, along the northern Silk Road.

- S. Peralta, Twelve Stones on a Necklace

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