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Beauty, Black and White, Boats, Experimental, Florida, Harbour, Moment, Nature, Peace, Pensive, Photography, Sadness, Sea, Story, Sunset, Thoughts, Writing
The harbour lay bare and waiting. I strayed from the Sun, looming in the underbrush, gazing out at bony masts and old tattered umbrellas, dangling in the languid breeze. The wind turbines purred softly as towers of crisp white cloud dripped into dark sinuous waters. A blue darner hummed beside my ear, my mind strewn with white petals, my eyes reflecting mischief. I waited there, hidden, beside the chafing dock, and watched as boats groaned in and out, as the dolphins played and the clouds grew dark and bruised in the distance.
And at last I crawled out, and was overtaken by a Sea-Faring-Man. He gazed at me with soft, sagging eyes of crackling blue, shimmering through a russet, canyon face. And then he stepped into his lopsided vessel and slowly glided away without a word, sunlight pounding into his white-cotton back. And as I watched him, snaking reflections dancing along the rim of consciousness, I perceived something all too familiar in that depth of grief, that lesion of sadness, that seems to ever-dwell in Beauty…
west517 said:
Love! Love! Love!!
smilingtoad said:
Thank you, so thrilled it was enjoyed! Cheers!
Autumn Jade
Ken D said:
A wonderful , pitcher , depicted in and bye your words. Soothing ,
smilingtoad said:
Thankee matie! Aye, it is always peaceful at my favourite harbour that looms just down the way…Cheers!
Elina said:
Wonderful post, love the photos! 🙂
smilingtoad said:
Thank you! So glad it was enjoyed!
d3citypics said:
Yup…love the water images…a lot!
smilingtoad said:
Thanks very much. I can never get enough of the water 😉 Thanks for drizzling by and having a wee look. Smiling cheers,
Autumn Jade
Alexander Lautsyus said:
Your words sounds like a poem! Pictures are amazing!
smilingtoad said:
Thank you! Really appreciate the kind words. Thanks for flitting by! Cheers,
Autumn Jade
Ken D said:
The harbor , walters somth as a mill pond , bates gently bobing up an down ,gulls , flowting , cormans , lazaly diveing , takeing fish , boys and gilrs , some dive off the habuer wall , pungeing in to te saoty warter , with nets , looking to scoope up baby fish , sky brightest blue , puffd of white cloudes , slowly drift , all carts , gone at least for now , the harbored is indeed , harbors no fears.
Javier Molina said:
I must add: your poetic method. you express such tender, dark beauty with ease
anotherday2paradise said:
Beautiful water images, AJ. Your words are so mesmerising. I wished to be there, to go sailing with the seafaring-man for a while.
smilingtoad said:
Me too, ardently so. Thanks so much for your exquisite comment!! Smiling cheers,
Autumn Jade
Jean-Jacques said:
Extraordinary combination of imagery and words… so well fitted it is hard to tell where the one leaves off and the other takes over. Beautiful…! I applaud your creative talents.
thesailorswoman.wordpress.com said:
Lovely! The photos and the words are just stunning.
chrisnelson61 said:
This is brilliantly written; evocative, emotional and sensitive, and you have given the reader enough scope to use their own imagination. Well written!