Final night, and attempt.
The image I chose fired up my poet’s imagination, as I stood before the very work of art, produced by a locally-based artist, as part of the Malakoff Exhibition last month at our local Art Gallery in Weisdale.
I devoted it a blog post not so long ago…
And now to its own poetics-
Shipwright
No bones, just
rust.
They say
they nailed you on a wall,
framed inside wood,
sea drifter’s
dream,
but
as
currents
took you apart,
you lost your legs as
a sailor, and
let salt
gnaw
through
your rib cage.
What’s come of you
defies earth’s
tides,
lightless
iris lost in riptides,
your joie de
vivre in
prey
to
dust…
What’s left of you,
but eyes of metal on
the wall.
© Nat Hall 2015
Thank you for such challenge, Jane Dougherty. Highly enjoyed 🙂
nordicblackbird 
I knew you’d come out with some great combinations of words and pictures. This is superb! The shipwright is suitably half here and half gone, almost but not quite rusted away.
Thank you very kindly, Jane – enjoyed it very much 🙂
These challenges that involve writing something are fun to do. Unlike the ‘ten fun facts about me’ type of challenge.
Mega-right!!! Besides, I take the line that my work is far more interesting than the “me” bit… It speaks out for more eloquently 🙂
Strangely enough, it seems that the most popular blog posts are interview posts. I know i’d much rather read a piece of prose or poetry from an author I’m interested in, but there’s no accounting for taste 🙂
People are curious by nature… Fair do, it’s human – am much more thrilled by somebody’s original work. Their life is theirs. An interview is a snapshot – work, their deeper self 🙂
Agreed! Authors are just people. It’s their work that makes them interesting, not the other way round.
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Nat Hall’s final day’s entry in the stories and photos challenge—a poem about sailors, the sea, and the passing of time. Beautiful.
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