The Get Away

When your life is crazy and you need to get away!

Blusterous wind, blowing through my red hair.

My lips are salty from the ocean.

Water splashes on me, awakening my inner child.

 

The sky is partly cloudy,

but rays of sun illuminates through,

warming me like a firey furnace.

The warmth heats my cold tired soul.

 

The boat rocks back and forth,

furious waves splashing against it.

I feel freer than I've felt in days.

 

Sea gulls fly high above me,

their voices yelling out over the water.

It's like a serenade, my own choir.

I'm at awe over the beauty, the serenity I feel.

 

Soon night falls over the ocean sky,

twinkling stars glisten through the darkness.

The waves has quieted, and my body is rested.

 

A noise brings me back to reality.

I smile as I gaze at the picture,

flipping to the next month of the Thomas Kinkade claendar a small cabin appears in a snowy forest.

All pictures look enticing.

I know I'll visit many places,

if only in my mind.

 

 

Author's Note

I love staring at pictures that Thomas Kinkade has done! Tell me what you think?

Reviews

[InkSlinger]

Love the ending twist, clever.. again, you work just keeps getting better and better. Not only the writing aspect of it.. but the subject matter.. Keep up the nice work.

[SpitfireGrrrl]

Great write! I was immediately drawn in, and loved the end. I myself daydream a lot about where I'm going to go, what I want to see - so this was awesome for me!

[?]

Wonderful poem with great imagery
Loved it

[Allison]

I looooved the twist at teh end! I really felt like I knew what was going on here. This woman is standing on a beach, or somewhere near an ocean, and she's going through a refreshing process (or something of the sort, maybe a bit more magical than that;)), but then you brought up the calender, and it took me by surprise! That, is something I really admire in poetry.

-Pokie

[An owl on the moon]

There is a wonder when an image pulls us inside... awakens that world in our imagination. You express that beautifully here.

[Liza]

thorough and gracious

[HopelesslyDevoted]

i love the way you described the picture of the day! wonderful!

[Brad]

wow, you pulled us all into a painting and i myself had a "cap'n dan" moment

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

wonderful imagery~you truly bring it alive!~

[Cherrie Palmer]

the feel, the flow, the imagery is wonderful