with my grateful thanks to Jim...




Survivor

 

I’ve planted memories that will make you sad

knowing  I am no longer here

Whether that is good or bad

I have no knowledge of my dear

 

In such brief days we’ve loved and laughed

Sat quietly and felt the calm

Of each others embracing arms

Layed a future course of brilliant line

 

The rhumb we thought to follow to

The Shangri-La we hoped we’d find

Has veered and twisted fraught by storms

Unanticipated by us both

 

For nature is a fickle friend

Halcyon days and starlit nights

In equal serendipitous measure

Tempests wreckage horror tossed

 

So now you sit on this bleak beach

Drenched alone safe exhausted now

Survivor of the wreck near shore

That’s claimed my life forevermore 

 





Poetry by josephus The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2023-03-03 at 03:09

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jim The PoetBay support member heart!
I, too, am moved by this. It's lovely and sad. The title, "Survivor," came to mind as I finished the poem (for the third or fourth time).
2023-03-03


D G Moody The PoetBay support member heart!
Very eloquent - 'I’ve planted memories that will make you sad'; the line sets the tone of the poem, and the running analogy of a loved one as a survivor of shipwreck - meaning the one who is now lost. A vey good poem Joseph.
2023-03-03


Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
I am not easily made emotional from the words of a poem, but this one got to me. Maybe I have been dwelling on mortality a shade too much, especially in what I have been reading. My indiscretions do not take anything from the potency of this verse, it still stands proud and tall, and a testament to your penmanship.
Blessings, Allen
2023-03-03