ROOM ON THE LEFT: one colour wiggle

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

While watching LOST

last night

and

watching the blizzard move in this morning

I made a new wiggle

I have seen a few popping up here and there

but

they are made with two or three colours

so,

I wondered what a one colour one

would look like

so I made one

I like it, very much,

if I do say so myself!!

here she comes...

I am standing by the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,

and I stand and watch

until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud

just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!

Gone where? Gone from my sight – that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar

as she was when she left my side

and just as able to bear her load of living freight

to the places of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says,

‘There she goes! ‘ ,

there are other eyes watching her coming,

and other voices ready to take up the glad shout :

‘Here she comes!’

Henry Van Dyke, 19th century

ROOM ON THE LEFT