Charming Nantucket

POSTED IN contemporary poetry August 15, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charming Nantucket

Little houses of cedar shaked serenity
house the most volatile of people,
quaking from their creativity,
hiding from normalcy,
needing a refuge.

All acts astrologically reasoned,
put in their proper places,
accounted for.
They are now able to relate
to their inner seething.
This intermittent eruption of discontent,
restless outbursts of individuality.

Separated from the rest of humanity
and it’s causes,
they are free.
Free to expose selfish expression.
Free for selfless repression.
Free from most other oppression.
Set apart from the mainland.

Most choose this exile
either in birthing or longing
for the tranquility of the sea birds,
lapping waves
and bogs.

The beautiful sameness of housing,
square housing,
contrasts the slippery curves of cobblestone.

Quaint is as Wild does,
as so, the people!
Charming!

 

Pamela Hope