Sara's Song

 

 

Like a skein of softly woven silk

She moves silently across ocean waves

Exquisite in her ethereal beauty

Moving effortlessly across moonlit bays

 

Her soul knows no boundaries

As it moves silently in the night

Her beauty in midnight glowing

Like a bird soaring in graceful flight

 

Gliding in misty moonlight

In a gleaming white moon blaze

Her face glowing amongst the stars

She glides elegantly across the waves

 

Her heart cries out to the seamen

Bereft … longing to be found

In the misty ebullient sea

In which Sara’s poor body drowned

 

The whales sing her lonely song

Their cries ring strangely thru’ the night

Their voices without words

Grieving Sara’s rueful plight

 

Sara’s voice cries out in vain

Her tears- salty with ocean air

Crying out in quiet depths

Endlessly in her despair

 

Glimmering and vast the mighty sea

Tides rage full- the moon shines bright

This sad maiden cries out in despair

Through the darkness of the lonely night

Her sorrowful notes of sadness-

Linger eternal in the misty ocean air

So many years now...

Sara still wanders all alone

In Neptune's deep watery grave

All the brave seamen so forlorn

Sara's poor lifeless body...

Those gallant seamen could not save

written & c/r by anne p murray

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

What a wonderful eerie tale...I enjoyed the eloquence with which it was wrought.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAnne]

Thanks for that compliment Fabian! I so appreciate you taking the time to comment. It was an enjoyable write for me

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I like the layout too...pretty. But I'm all about the words ya know? Brass tacks of the craft and all that.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAnne]

I totally understand. Men like how it works, women like how it looks ;)

[Sami Khalil]

The whales sing her lonely song
Their cries ring strangely thru’ the night.
A very nice write especially these lines.

[Emrick]

Sara the mermaid. .beautiful poem Madam Anne.
(There was a time i used to think that mermaid were real.Every night i would go to the sea and chill hoping to see a mermaid and maybe fall in love with. I later learned that they don't exist.i felt so sad.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAnne]

Thank you very much emrick for your new friendship and reviewing my poem
Hugs to you out there in Kenya
Anne