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On tide slowing time.

Webbing the worlds of threading tides
we watched as the rocks exploded
with a thousand shards of diamonds
ignition by virtue of a sun ripe sky

You sat on rocks, I pondered pools
the blue green azure, pure jewels
of millennia formed, layered and hewn
rocks the might of sea could not belie

All the sun day long, I wished
that this would last an eternity
and the sea would blast, and the sea
would seethe and sigh, while all above us
endless light, where birds climbed

If ever a day could outlast time
I wished this day would slow
and past, future, sea, sunshine
and you on the sweet damp sand

Forever mine.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: A portrait of a day, which was a welcome break on the east coast of Tasmania.

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Tasmania, AUS

Favorite Poets: Glen Richards, Thomas Hardy, Phillip Larkin, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Carol Ann Duffy , Ani DiFranco, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot

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Comments

S

scribbler

6 years 9 months ago

hello

This captures well one of those days we wish would never end.......stan

IRiz

IRiz

6 years 8 months ago

Hello dear V.

Hello dear V.
Your poem is a wonderful treat this gloomy morning. It brings so much sun and spray, love and dream. It is beautiful. Thank you.

vandiemenspeak

vandiemenspeak

6 years 8 months ago

Thanks IRiz

Glad it could bring in some sunshine for you! Beautiful spot on the Tasmanian east coast.

Take care,

Chris.