All day
We watched the sea
Each mood a promise
Nothing like it could be
All day
Taunting waves
Odd ships and sea birds
With sun dried eyes.
Then –
Joyous
Headlong
They came
Sewing the sea
Stitching the waves
Into the dusk of our vigil.
JDaniels©2016
We took a trip on a ship, The Pride of Bilbao.
Not a lot to do
Waiting
Read maybe
Watch
Comings and goings
Keep an ear on
Conversations
For your name
Not yet they are
Running late
Times
Are on screen
Then
A pause
This advert
Invades my mind
“Double Ocean View”
It offers
But unable to fulfil
Its promise
I guess we have to forgive
To look beyond the words
For the truth
JDaniels©2016
Funny things words. These go-betweens, these utterances and scribbles upon which we hang so much; if you get my meaning!
WORD
Sorry
Pardon
What did you just say
One lobbed word didn’t
Go off inside my head
Like they usually do
Grenades
Loaded
Primed
To Detonate
Triggering neurons
Racing to connect
Me with you
One word
One embedded
In a context that
Gave no clue
I heard the word
Its not one I knew
So
What was it you said
Do I need it in my head
Best you say it again
Then explain what it means
To you and then we might
Examine its emotional context
Else you’ll leave me all perplexed
JDaniels©2016
Waking the Baby 