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Rod
Member

since 1999-12-08

Posts 149
Auckland New Zealand

0 posted 2007-02-16 02:13 PM

She was calm and majestic, imposing and free
As her magic imparted its soliloquy.
In those last mellow beams of the day’s dying sun
It seemed that creation and I were at one.

To the oncoming night, so the sun bowed her praise
In amber-gold homage, her last dappled rays
Dipped in soft lapping vespers caressing my toes
As the murmuring surf held my life in their throes.

Beyond the horizon, the parting day passed;
The night-rolling breath of the evening winds cast
Their spell on the vast glassy face of the deep,
Whose ripples applauded the night’s starry keep.

‘Neath the starlit umbrella I achingly wandered.
The tide washed my footprints…my memory pondered
On words long since uttered in anger and pain,
Which, born in the sunshine, had died in the rain.

And there, in the face and the voice of the sea
It was as if time was suspended for me.
I lifted my eyes to the heavens above
And whispered a prayer for salvation… and love.

Then I saw her again! In the twilight’s soft glow…
As the touch of the warm wind surrounded me so
That the shimmering wavelets which kiss and depart
Brought her back to my memory … and into my heart.

As her spirit embraced me, its smooth velvet glove
Enfolded my soul, as the wings of a dove.
She called to me softly, from out of the blue
“As you have loved me… so have I loved you too”.

Through my tears in the darkness, there came such emotion
The light of redemption … the promised devotion!
Its brilliance glowed in the depths of my soul
And its fragments, long broken, again became whole.

The voice of the ocean had rendered to me
A timeless commandment, as old as the sea.
It said “Those who would seek Me shall find it their due
To love one another… as I have loved you”.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

ivordavies
Senior Member

since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

1 posted 2007-02-16 05:17 PM

Rod,

Loved this, then I would, the sea has a fascination for me and like a mistress calls to me in a language that pulls at my soul.

Ivor

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

2 posted 2007-02-16 07:28 PM

Lovely words here Rod

RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

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