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my dear
\nsweet muse
\nI
\noften
\nfeel
\nas if looking
\nout the porthole
\nof a ship
\nnear Portsmouth
\nthe place of your birth
\nwhere I hope to get
\na glimpse
\nof you standing
\nat the shore \u2026..\u00a0\u00a0 waving
\nvigorously
\nto get my attention
\nbefore I sail on by<\/p>\n
but in reality
\nthis imagining
\nfinds its inspiration
\nfrom when
\nI stood looking
\nout the door
\nof the Black Pelican
\nRestaurant
\nlocated on
\nthe Outer Banks<\/p>\n
You are there…
\nI
\nam here
\nso much space
\nbetween us
\nI’ve had to learn
\nto love you
\nfrom a distance<\/p>\n
I
\ncherish
\nthe moments
\nwe’ve
\nshared
\nwhen not
\na part from
\neach other
\nI
\nremember the day
\nyou jumped in the ocean
\nwith your clothes still on
\nwhen you stood
\nin the open field
\nwith no one else \u2026 texting
\nyour son
\nat the Wright Brothers
\nNational Memorial
\nand you just had
\nto buy me that shirt
\nfrom BrewThru
\nso I could officially
\nshare your memories<\/p>\n
You are there…
\nI
\nam here
\nso much space
\nbetween us
\nI’ve had to learn
\nto love you
\nfrom a distance
\nmy dear
\nsweet muse
\nI
\noften
\nfeel
\nas if looking
\nout the porthole
\nof a ship
\nnear Portsmouth
\nthe place of your birth
\nwhere I hope to get
\na glimpse
\nof you standing
\nat the shore \u2026..\u00a0\u00a0 waving
\nvigorously
\nto get my attention
\nbefore I sail on by<\/p>\n
Image & Words by\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
my dear sweet muse I often feel as if looking out the porthole of a ship near Portsmouth the place of your birth where I hope to get a glimpse of you standing at the shore \u2026..\u00a0\u00a0 waving vigorously to get my attention before I sail on by but in reality this imagining finds its … Continue reading “You are there…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlf","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}