Written by Ann LeFlore for Blue Bell Books Poetry short story slam week 9. Write a short story or poem on the image. Image credit: Art at Google.com
The Milky Seas
The crimson sun
Settles on the horizon
As she stands on the shore
Shading her eyes
As the boat sails
Towards the land
Holding in her hand
The lantern
For her lover to see
The light of the night
Her long silk gown
Ruffles in the wind
Clinging to her body
Flowing downwards
Towards the sand
Many years she stands on the shore
Looking, hoping, dreaming
Of this day
The ship returned from afar
Each night before she returns home
With lost hopes
As she leaves behind her
Letters in the sand
For her lover to read
Waiting for his return
On the lonely sea shore
The day he takes her hand
To sail across the milky seas
The ship draws near
She hears his cries
Singing from a blue
I’ve come to take your hand
The lands are old and grey
For many years I’ve been away
But my love for you
Can never change
Darling I’ve returned this day
To write your name
In the sand
For our love will never die
I will marry you this day
To take you to a land
So far away
To a world so newly born
For my love for you
Has never died
Though so many years away
Darling I’m older but a year
Hand in hand
We’ll write our names
In the sand
For your love so new to me
Ann LeFlore
The Gateless Passage 
Comments on: "The Milky Seas" (54)
Very, very nice! I like the lantern to signal her love, great visual. Blessings…
Thank you so much for your comment and visiting my blog site. I am happy that you liked this poem.
The secen you created with your words could apply to many who are left to wait for the return of a loved one. I love the lines ” as she leaves behind her” – “letters in the sand” ” for her lover to read”. Well done …!!!
Ciao,
Isadora
Check out my little twist on the prompt –
http://insidethemindofisadora.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/sailing-into-the-midnight-sky/
Thank you so much. I saw the boat as it was retruning and the look she had was that she had been there before always bringing her light with her each time.
I love happy endings…esp. when one has long waited!
Thank you so much. I enjoyed reading all the entires and see each person idea on the image in the picture. Some see it as a ship leaving others as one coming home.
Awww. This is so sweet:
“Darling I’ve returned this day
To write your name
In the sand”
Yes the lover who was taken away off to sea and promised to return to marry his only love. She waits for his return and when he comes home.
Lovely story! Really romantic.
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this topic and reading all the different ones that were written. It was such a fun idea to do this
Well written poem, and sweet. I hope the sand is the ‘sand of time’ cos the beach sand will get washed up and all the letters fade away. Nice!
Cheers!
Thank you Emmanuel I think it can be any sand we want it to be. I so enjoyed your site and I am so happy that you passed here by mine. Thank you so much
Nicely done Sarah
I was with your storyline all the way.
Genebrother
Thank you Genebrother this was so nice of you to read my story and leave a comment. I also enjoyed your story so much and read each entry and visted each site.
Nicely done my friend, I love it!
Thank you so much and I loved your and everyone elses who joined this. It was so great to read them all
Romantic, moving story. Really nice write!
Thank you so much. I read so many different poems on this image and they were all so well done and I was amazed at the work that went into them all.
A testament to enduring love. So glad it had a happy ending~! Lovely
Thank you it was an interesting photos and I read all the entries on this one and each person saw it so differently
Sweet sadness, waiting for the return of a loved one. So many did not return.
Yes a long time ago this one was so true but luckly hers did return home and marry her
Like a song.
Thank you so much. I loved to read all the entries for the photos.
Very romantic and sweet 🙂
Thank you so much. I so enjoyed your entry. Thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment.
romantic and sweet, beautifully presented!
Thank you so much and I am so happy that you stopped and read this poem. I read all the poems and they were so well done and such different ideas.
Beautiful piece! 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome and thank you for visiting. I am happy that you enjoyed this piece.
heartwarming.
loved it.
Thank you so much. I loved all the pieces on this photo and it was a fun piece to write.
Very lyrical piece ! Could be the words to a song …
I loved the repetitive lines … it’s a reassurance that they will be together !
Thanks for taking time to visit my blog and leave a comment ! Much appreciated .
Never thought of it as a song but you might be right on this one. I just had a good time writing it and sharing it. You are welcome and loved your blog and what you did with the photo. They were all so wonderful and good.
Power, beauty, love, can conquer time. Great write/poem. Thank you, much appreciated, WS
Thank you too for dropping by. I loved your poem and it was such a wonderful photo to create a poem about
Would work perfectly set to music!
You are the second person who indicated this. I never thought about this one before. thank for stopping by and leaving a comment. This was so wonderful and I loved you blog
You might want to link up to this, Ann: http://dversepoets.com/2011/09/06/open-link-night-week-8/
Thanks Shawna I linked up the creatures of the night poem on there for share night the one about vampires and Halloween I thought it would be a good one to try out on share night.
lovely and poignant, so romantic.
Thank you so much. I am so happy that you found my blog and you enjoyed this poem so much.
What came first, the picture of the poem. Mysterious.
The picture was shown and the idea was to write a poem on it and what we saw. Thank you for visiting the blog site and leaving a comment.
This poem of longing resonated with me after having watched a movie last night about Princess Kaʻiulani (of Hawaii). I especially like “Her long silk gown” stanza.
I have never seen this film I guess I should look it up and give it a watch. Thank you so much I am happy that you liked this.
Sarah Johnson with your wonderful Victorian gravatar, this delighted me to no end!
I love how you swept me to a parallel universe of sailors,sun and sand.
You brought that photo to life — and then some!!
Thank you so much. It was my daughter who wrote this piece. There are 4 of us who post on this blog site. I am so glad that you stopped by and read this poem. The gravatar is my Great-Great Grandma Simpson and it is the gravator I use for Grandma Simpson’s Kitchen in Roby Texas where I share all of her recipes and the recipes in my family that have been handed down to me now. I hope you will come back and visit again real soon. I love it when people enjoy so much the blog site and what is posted on here.
What a lovely poem!
Thank you so very much and so happy that you liked it so much
This is lovely… so full of emotion 🙂
Thank you so much I am so glad that you found this and have read it. It is sort of a love story with a happy ending for once
sweet and adventurous.
a job well done.
🙂
Thank you so much. I am so happy that you like this post so well. I am glad that you stopped by and read this and I also enjoy your blog so much. I try when I visit to leave a comment behind and let you know how well I liked this.