Time spreads apart many crests of a wave Flow in cadence falling on sandy shores Wash away any trace our souls to save Even our footprints vanish mine and yours
Eyes shine like liquid stars so icy blue Blind almost so pale in color make ghosts Bumps up against darkness' glittering hue Where deep green sea meet at the coasts
Forever drowned in a dream when each breath A stench of decay mists into my breast That what leaves behind after cheating death Through rocky portals swirl a life compressed
A dank stormy night face a mighty sea When gulls are crying and laughing at me
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Posted: Sep 2012
About this poem:
A sinking feeling to describe the smell of death washing up upon a stormy shore as it conjures up fleeting images of time and mortality for 'who knows who we really are' when our whole life is only like footprints found in the sand...... here today and gone tomorrow......
Hi Red, This is indeed a very sad reflection and comment on life. So many in this world still depend and exist on what washes up on the shores of chance....
Just a genral comment to all on the corner here.... Not all poetry is chipper, sunny, happy lovey-dovey....scratching my pen towards the darker and rawer side of life is often very powerful prose, too....
LadyMorgana60Norwich, Norfolk, England UKSep 17, 2012
A clever deep sad sonnet..very well penned as always Yankee.. Yes..its good to express ourselves in all forms..and Dark is in us all at times :) very much enjoyed!
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Yes..its good to express ourselves in all forms..and Dark is in us all at times :) very much enjoyed!