The full, new moon glistened like a silver shield.
The stars twinkled in the deep azure above.
A cloudless sky – a heavenly plain!
The wind called a truce and breathed benignly.
A gentle zephyr blew across the stilled mere,
as moonbeams danced on the mirrored face
of that tepid pool. No beast roamed abroad:
No sound perturbed the evening calm.
A discernible ripple betrayed the stilled.
the water, as a sail fluttered o’er the hulk
of a tiny fragile boat that blithely tacked
with the meagre gust of arid, August air.
A sole sailor cruised on a lonely course,
homeward: his modest catch round his feet:
the bountiful fruits of the depths below.
Peace reigned in the moonshine on the mere.
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Author:
Jay George (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Escape
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Comments1
Reads like a novel! Throughly enjoyed the read…
Thank you Parisab.
The feedback means so much!
It was my pleasure, and perhaps my
Midnight Flight return some thematic similarities…
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