Standing Watch

Edward Ahern

A Pantoum

I am with others yet feel alone
viewing rolling open ocean waves
glinting faintly under cloud spatter,
the half-moon hinting at vision

Viewing rolling open ocean waves,
the ponderous hull swaying gently,
the half-moon hinting at vision,
bridge lights shrouded into dark

The ponderous hull swaying gently
its many tons for now my keeping,
bridge lights shrouded into dark,
seas flickering ebony and steel 

Its many tons for now my keeping
I stand apart in good company.
seas flickering ebony and steel,
my thoughts swelling with them

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Edward Ahern
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over five hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he squats on the review board, and at Scribes Micro where he is the idle figurehead.