Archive | November 2012

11/14/2012 Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections – Stern Mooring

*Winner of a Beautiful Bloom Award from Poetic Bloomings!

Stern Mooring

I wanted
to feel the ground
solid beneath my feet
to know there was a wall
formidable, unwavering,
that could barricade me
in love.

But I felt
the slippery rocks
that rose from troubled waters
pulling me by the ankles
into the shocking cold
where my tender forehead
eager for a goodnight kiss
softly upon my brow
waited
and waited
till the distant
ebb and flow
of time
forgot what
I had wanted.

Tribute to the children who lost their fathers to the icy cold of Lake Superior when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975.
See video of the Edmund Fitzgerald: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw