Maiden Voyage

by Naomi Kamimura
 

My boat
Floats with the tide
Speechless sea gulls skim the wave
I remain standing, bound as if by my
Marriage ring

© 2004 by Naomi Kamimura. All rights reserved.


Naomi Kamimura is from Japan. She has taken many poetry classes and workshops at The Loft in Minneapolis, MN. She is also a member of wwwdotcom, a Wednesday-women-writing group that meets weekly at the Book Club Room of The Loft. To write a poem in English is positively surreal for her.