Sailing on Light and Cloud

Sailing on Light and Cloud
      by g. n. tom

On days when the sun is low,

before the stars have pierced night’s shroud,

I have seen that fabled ship,

sailing eastward on light and cloud.

 

They say the ship bears some away,

holding them on ether tide.

I admit to hoping each day,

tonight it will be my guide.

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This is a piece I've been working on forever and finally finished. I've developed a sort of obsession with ships along the way. I scanned in a sketch of a ship I drew, and did 90% of the painting in Corel Painter with some touch ups (particularly the clouds) in Photoshop (I also made a little clay model of the figurehead for reference). Then I labored over the little poem for probably too long.
I hope you like it