Sepia Haze

This is a poem I wrote by taking inspiration from the painting 'Liverpool Docks in Moonlight'.

Sepia haze

Blankets like a soft caress

Docks lay hushed

Silenced by the cooling hand of night

 

Street lights glow

Ever so faintly

Fingers of light pushing

Pushing out, out of the fog

 

People stand poised

Acquiesced by an unseen touch

Their black silhouettes 

Printed against the moonlight

 

Sea's noble knights

Held in waves gentle palm

Froth gathering, like velvet trim

Masts proud and regal

 

Momentarily caught

In times passing grasp

A still, silent world

All in sepia haze