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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Drama · #2159521
With the Stroke of a Brush, Haunted Forever
Clementine's Legacy

Finally viewed as something real or not?
an investment of hours with a brush
years of devotion on waves ~
for its own sake moored to our horizon

Kiss that sailboat goodbye,
and don't call it a ship
call it, "Clementine" ~
if you must paint it a color

Rounded home just in time,
making a killing to anchor
by the numbers alone, used ~
Never glancing back at the vague visage

Supposed to be family, a crew
What's in a promise broken?
not too much relevant remains
Echoes of that nautical portrait ~
"Clementine"


entry in "Shadows and Light Poetry Contest
17 Lines
Free verse






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