The Tempest: Landscape of Water

(based on The Tempest, watercolor, from James Henry Nixon)

by Tisha Nemeth

Instinctive to the storm
steer the rudder of your course
ignoring lassitude of limbs,
the erosion of strength

may your hope erode the layers of fear,
knowing your fate’s
within salted spray of the sea
threatening and chafing all surfaces
of nature’s varied infrastructures.

Search no more for coast land’s latitudes
eclipsed in folded cloud and drifting
waves’ halcyon, soon the water will move
quieting in its mood.

Storm of the panoramic
wanes and slows, its gradual flows of cold
air passes to remote distances,
allow it to lapse and pass

feeling the brined air, its closeness.

© 2003 Tisha Nemeth

Tisha Nemeth has poems featured in local and national poetry literary reviews (Hazmat Review, Peralta Press, RiversEdge - University of Texas, Curbside Review, Poetry, This Hard Wind, ArtCrimes, etc. etc., ad nauseam). Much of her poetry is based on her work experiences in art galleries and museums: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard's Fogg Museum, The Frick Collection in NYC. She's also the lit-obsessed poetry editor for www.CoolCleveland.com

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