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Wilfried F Voss

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The Widow's Walk
by Wilfried F Voss → (All Poetry by Wilfried F Voss)
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A widow's walk is a railed rooftop platform often with a small enclosed cupola. The name is said to come from the wives of mariners, who would watch for their spouses' return, often in vain as the ocean took the lives of the mariners, leaving the women widows.

Dear wind, do tell. Do I wait in vain
Every day in sunshine and in rain?
I am here to walk the widow’s walk
Each day, shadowed by a seagulls’ flock.
Come back to me. Come back to me.

Dear wind, do tell. Do I long in vain
Bowing at the ocean’s endless reign?
Where are you my love, where do you dwell?
It’s so long ago you said farewell.
Come back to me. Come back to me.

Dear wind, do tell. Do I watch in vain
To lay my eyes on his ship again?
Many a billowed sails out at sea
But none to return my love to me.
Come back to me. Come back to me.

Dear wind, do tell. Do I cry in vain
In anguish, sorrow, and full of pain?
Will I wait until death’s ghastly grip
Or will the mighty Lord guide his ship
Back to me? Come back to me.

"Painted Wings and Giants' Rings" by Wilfried F. Voss has now been released on Amazon Kindle. For more information see New on Kindle: Painted Wings and Giants' Rings, About the Loss of Innocence


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 Reviews of "The Widow's Walk"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 2, 2012
A well-written poem that could be a sea shanty. I can imagine the anguish women felt when their men were at sea for months at a time, never knowing that they would come back.

Ron


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