Friday, February 8, 2008

Ken Jones: MOONRISE BY THE SEA

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Full sail two boats
make for the moonlit shore
two men, two women
wait

Out there, on the edge of the sea, the two men stand together, tall and close. A little behind them, the two women sit on a rock. The one in the black gown has her hand on the shoulder of the one in red.

Moon shadowed among the dark rocks, I watch them. In front, almost close enough for me to touch, stands a great anchor. Symbol of hope, it rests upright against another.

The watchers face in. Together, and calmly, they gaze out to sea. And I with them.

Here on a moonlit night in 1821, Caspar David Friedrich painted this in oils.

Moonlight spills beneath the clouds
soft light
on the gallery floor


by Ken Jones
Aberystwyth, Wales
June 2002

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