A Poem for a Thursday #87

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This is what I appreciate about poetry. A few words can say so much more than they do on the surface. Poetry is the use of words to create images and emotion. All writing is, I suppose, but poetry frequently does it so concisely.  I love this.

In the end,
it was nothing more 
than the toy boat of a boy
on the local park’s lake,
where I walked with you.


But I knelt down
to watch it arrive,
its white sail shy
with amber light,
the late sun 
bronzing the wave
that lifted it up,


my ship coming in
with its cargo of joy.


Ship
Carol Ann Duffy