Coming Home / Arriving Home
Arriving Home
Every morning I awake from my slumber and walk to the widows walk that is atop the house, where my family lives. He has been gone for many months now, my dear husband, who was on a ship that went out to sea with fellow seafaring men. Some say the ship was lost at sea. A possible seawreck. There are those who have been searching for the lost ship. I am in disbelief that the ship has been lost at sea. I have dreams that the ship is arriving home soon. In my dreams my husband is well and fine. He greets me with stories of where he and his shipmates have been. The adventures that took them off course and took a long time to find their way back to their loved ones.. Arriving home, you are in my dreams every night. In the morning, I awake and again walk the widow's walk atop our home. I have a good view of ships arriving home to their loved ones. I am in disbelief that you and your shipmates are lost at sea. I believe you will be arriving home soon. We will hold each other and cry for the time lost while you were not home these many months, going on years.
- Kate Boyle
Coming Home
Thomas Palance
Acrylic on canvas
About the Creators
Thomas Palance
Thomas is a professional musician and has had experience as a pen and ink artist as an occasional hobby. He is a retired Music Professor at The Berklee College of Music and has previously taught at The Boston Conservatory, Salem State University and The University of New Hampshire. Tom served 20 years in the Navy’s premiere band in Washington DC performing at The White House, The Kennedy Center and twenty-two national tours. He has been on numerous studio recordings including four of his own releases. Tom has been a professional trumpet player and conductor for over forty years. He has brought a variety of artistic collaborations to the Boston area as the founder and Artistic Director of The Orchestra on the Hill creating collaborative concerts working with dancers, poets, visual artists and animators. He has illustrated for The Doctor Pet Joint Advisory Council in Washington, DC, and for the Orr Kelly Novel “Dream’s End. Thomas has also illustrated two children’s books by William Sargent “Eat, Hay, and Run” and “Lilly & Minot Go to the Beach”. Thomas has recently taken an interest in painting and has been under the mentorship of Pat Gray at Must Art Studios.
Kate Boyle
Kate Boyle has been writing poetry since high school. She has also been a psychotherapist for many years. She enjoys her work. She loves to write everyday. Nature is a topic she often incorporates in her writing. She has been reading The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz, poetry about his garden.