Thursday, August 5, 2021

bones from the sunken ship

 


lay me down

on craggy rocks, where cedar and pine trees 

veil the blue sky


let my bones be salted

by seagulls & shrunken dried by sun & clouds 


i will float

not a lost map

nor a ghost from 18th century sunken ship


but to the vibrancy 

of turquoise waves &

woodpecker's incessant tapping 

on pine tree





Big Tub Harbour, Tobermory


Posted for dVerse Poets, OpenLinkNight, hosted by Mish.   I just came back from my vacation in Tobermory, Ontario and some of the lines are taken from my time there.  Thanks for the comments and visits.

19 comments:

  1. What a way to go ... to "float" in "the vibrancy." Gorgeous sentiment, Grace.

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  2. OH this is so beautiful,Grace...and I could hear that incessant tapping that you just have to embrace. Tobermory is such a magical place.

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  3. This is a gorgeous write. On my visits to the west coast I am always fascinated by the weathered bits of wood that are cast ashore. Your poem captures my thoughts as I gaze on them!

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  4. Such a beautiful and haunting poem, Grace! You really carry us away to the atmosphere: It's nature where we go to when it's all over. You portray that with eloquence. This reads as a lament, or rather as a request where one wishes their ashes to be spread at after they pass. Just my interpretation and what I was imagining while reading this. I also really loved the final stanza. Always enjoy reading you, Grace, you write beautifully. <3

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  5. Fabulous write. I love the extended metaphor. The sea taking us on throughout our time and beyond. It is exactly the correct length. There are no wasted words. Kudos!

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  6. That is truly the way to go floating, no lost map. beautifully expressed.

    Love the bit about the woodpecker ...

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  7. A beautiful write Grace, it could as easily describe the Tobermory we know and love here (on the Isle of Mull) xxx

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  8. You make the loss and the loneliness, but also the beauty, vivid here.

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  9. Sounds like you've made up your mind for your resting place, with the peace of water and presence of nature close by. Your photo shows it to be just such a place.

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  10. A floating beach bleached bone. I am watching it bob.

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  11. Floating bones rather than sunken bones... I like that!

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  12. This sounds so idyllic! I saw some of your photos on Instagram, what a truly beautiful place. It must have been hard to leave!

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  13. wonderful waves...my wish as well

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  14. "let my bones be salted

    by seagulls"

    Love this!

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  15. My wish as well ... mountains, rocky coast, rushing stream ... I had not considered the woodpecker. I thoroughly enjoyed this, Grace.

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  16. Not sure if my other comment went through but I really loved the opening here!

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  17. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
    The shoreline and landscape of Bruce Peninsula reminds me of Maine. I made many trips to Tobermory in the 1980s-90s for wreck diving, including an ice dive to the Sweepstakes. (I even spent time in the hyperbaric chamber there, as part of an advanced certification.)

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  18. A vivid picture, Grace, smells of the sea!
    JIM

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