Inspiration
It blew in against the tide
with so little fanfare
that it startled the longshoremen
who had taken to rust in the salt air.
Smiles of self-congratulation
rivalled the blaze of the setting sun.
“To patience and perseverance,”
trumpeted a hanger-on
who had practiced neither.
Tonight, all along the shore
the scritch of pencil on paper.
May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 at 8:41 PM UTC
Inspiration
It blew in against the tide
with so little fanfare
that it startled the longshoremen
who had taken to rust in the salt air.
Smiles of self-congratulation
rivalled the blaze of the setting sun.
“To patience and perseverance,”
trumpeted a hanger-on
who had practiced neither.
Tonight, all along the shore
the scritch of pencil on paper.