Ghostly Bows

A foggy morning on the river

As if by magic ghostly bows

Appear from through the misty shrouds

And water ripples silently

As shapes now form mysteriously

From distant shores the soundless ship

Arrives from yet another trip

With packages from far off lands

As people wait with open hands

The age old river slowly flows

Towards the sea and sunset glows

As time stands still and rays of light

Just glisten .. what a glorious sight

 

Phil Sanders

 

Reviews

[R J Askew]

Now this one I do like. You are the boss of sunrises and sunsets and a foggy morning gives no sunrise, BUT you've got some real drama in this one...the ship is like a spirit or an actor stealing onto stage and you draw a message of purposefulness from its passage. Have you ever written on the prision ships or the dockyards at Chatham? Be great if you did more river poems. The river is a big character.

[Beautifully Tragic xPoe..]

great imagery and flowed wonderfully. Great peice.

Rayne

[Nicholas Hallows]

'A glorious sight' and another glorious poem! I'm not usually a big fan of poems made completely of rhyming couplets but this one works really well. NH

[None]

You sincerely capture the foggy feeling and so much more in your eloquent poem. This is precise and paints a true picture that takes me there. I'm saving this to my library of favorites. A precious write!

[Brenda Sue]

So poetic and it just flows so nicely. Wonderfully penned. Great job.

[Sr.phil]

the rhyme style flows very nicely, got tounge tide a bit when i read - "And water ripples silentlyAs shapes now form mysteriously" then read it agian and its flow got better, i dig the mind plotting and viewing picture of this piece, very insightful. Short piece, good things and thumbs up, Sr.Phil

[Sally Edwards]

Mmmmmmmm beautiful poem, your words wash over me soothing me, relaxing me, nice easy read, beautiful images being conjured up in my mind

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Wonderfully poetic with lucid pictures of light and shade. There is nothing obscure about this and that is refreshing in itself, I don't like to have to work hard when I read because then it becomes a chore, not so here;I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Good work Phil.
Cheers,
Helen :-)