The death of a friend..


Slipped away


You slipped anchor
at midday
no towboats
called for
no hooting ships horns
no firefighters cascaded
plumes of spray

You heaved to
another shore
and left your berth empty,
we will clear the decks
and another trawler
of the human deep
will be belayed

but I the harbor master
will miss your silhouette
against the sky
and the silent cranes
will nod curfew

ships should slip away
at dawn
going as you did
midday
was going
against the tide

sail away
the sea's your
harbour now



Poetry by Teddy Donobauer
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Written on 2007-08-04 at 16:05

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Zoya Zaidi
People slip away to other shores,
silently, unobtrusively...
and we are left to remember
and mourn and miss them...

Ahh! the death of a friend is painful!
((Hugs))
Love, Zoya

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2007-09-13


sabereh lotfian
The poem just shows what a wonderful friend you are, Mr Donobauer. :) The beautiful Imagination you have & and it's portrayed here, as I read I feel I'm watching the poetic canvas you've painted, to keep the memory of a Friend!

You heaved to
another shore...

sail away
the sea's your
harbour now

VERY insightful

With respect,
Sabereh

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2007-08-09



Although the ship sailing away is an image often used to describe a person dying away from us, in this poem you make it feel new. Beautifully expressed throughout the whole text!

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2007-08-05


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
I loved , this , Ted, my father was ex Royal Navy. In the local paper I put '' Bungy ( all Williams are calde Bungy) has slipt his cable and gone a loft''. So you can see I ''felt''this poem , it's senterment's well , and warmly , thank you.

Ken D Williams.

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2007-08-04


Black Hole Poet
What a wonderful thoughts to your dead friend, I wish that someone write something like this when I am dead and gone . . .

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2007-08-04