There is no love on those horizon lines,
nor in the sight of ships
tacking their finite courses to
oblivion, spilling me
outside.
So who is it waiting
in the rain, feels its spots
cool on their skin, can smell
its sweet aroma
off the hard hot road, stretching away
around the lonely coast?
poem and picture © copyright David F. Barker 2012
Ciscography 
Hi David, what a splendid poem and picture, (Water , digital or oil?) I have the feeling I know just what you mean here. 🙂
I would love to put it on the Poetry of the Sea blog!
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Hi Ina – thank you very much. It is a digitally altered oil painting. Yes, please put it on your blog – I would be honoured.
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your art made me think I was looking out a window at the ocean through raindrops…..
then when I read your words, I was….
Beautoful DFB…as always….
Take Care…
)0(
maryrose
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I really love this David and the picture has a turneresque look to me! I don’t know that much about art but I learned about Turner on an Art history course 🙂
Christine
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the painting is beautiful and also what you paint with your words…
..finite courses to
oblivion, spilling me
outside…deeply emotional…
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Done 🙂 And thanks!
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Thank you Ina! Much appreciated.
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Pretty scene, both words and art. Love it.
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nice man….great opening line…felt ont he ships comeing and going but the second stanza really brings it home for me…who is waiting…and finding relief as well fromt he road in the rain…nice david..
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LOvely poem, beautiful painting.
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Spilling me outside…David…words and image are stunning (as always) but this one especially so. Loved it!
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Lovely piece- pic and poem. I really like your opening line.
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The words alone make the painting. Nice job fully using all the senses, puts one there just reading it. Enjoyed this. 🙂
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David, I can feel it, see it, smell it – wonderful work, as always!
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Such a lovely poem and beautiful picture. I love the spots of rain on the skin – and of course, this question of the horizon. k.
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Beautiful poetry David loved the painting 🙂
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Beautiful art and poem…as always.
http://eclipseofthemoon.wordpress.com/selected-poetry/the-beauty-of-the-nature/
I couldn’t resist 🙂 …again
Wishing you a wonderful day
//Eclipse
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I have spent many hours over my lifetime sitting on the shore and watching just such a line of small ships. It’s restful to me just to watch them on their “finite courses to oblivion.” I’m very tired today, and I think that plays into why I am not at all confident that I’m completely reading this poem with all of its rich meaning, but it is going to stick with me. I’ll come back to it again later and linger even longer. The words are soothing, and the painting is beautifully tranquil and of my favorite subjects. I’m always renewed by the ocean, and I think today I need a little renewal! 🙂 Beautiful, David. Debra
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Love the painting and the poem 🙂
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Thanks for an interesting, thought provoking read.
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I really love that painting of yours.
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Thank you so much Debra!
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Beautiful poem and painting, David! Watching the horizon alone brings many thoughts. I love this poem . Ciao, Francina
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Serenely expressed by ‘brush and pen’.
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Lovely words and painting, David!
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