Friday, December 20, 2013

Boatman Comments

Rating: 5.0

A grand boat slides through the grey mist
with no sound at all.
Souls that have once been,
wait for the boatman to arrive.
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maria goodison
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Georgios Venetopoulos 28 December 2013

The boat man is Charon. He was the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades. Nice poem, Maria. :) G.

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Maria Goodison 20 December 2013

The boat man is from greek mythology, he is showing nether as a ghost or man but dark and neutral, but in modern time he is more commonly depicted as more of a dark reaper

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 20 December 2013

picture perfect, but the boatman is shown as a Ghost with red eyes is too scary, otherwise very enjoyable poem as I like the boats and the oceans..

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