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WindWalker
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0 posted 2008-06-26 10:08 PM


The  Sea

The wild easterly sweeps from the open sea;
gray ocean waves batter a gravelly shore,
their white-crested manes tossed
like some watery hell stallions galloping,
neighing their freedom; thundering madly
over a heaving, frothy wintery moor.

Whipped snow and sand hiss among brown grasses
mixing brown sugar puddings, drifting, filling,
mercilessly driving shorebirds from shelters.
Plaintively peeping to one another
these seek new refuge among standing rocks.

White gulls glide on motionless pinions,
skirting lashing waves, crying;
black cormorants in rapid wingbeats
skim the green tempest purposefully
diving out of sight in rolling trenches.

Scavenging along the thunderous beach
turnstones and black oystercatchers
seek their allotment of daily sustenance
among tortured seaweed and rolling gravel
occasionally bashing to its death
a small crab flung high upon the shore.

From a distant rock hidden by driven clouds
a mournful horn blares its warning:
…warning!…warning!…warning!...
warning passing trawlers and freighters to
…stay away!…stay away!…stay away!…

The storm rages unabated
its perceived violence proving once more
that in contest between man and sea
primordial force will always possess
the last word upon this magical world.

© Copyright 2008 Sharran WindWalker - All Rights Reserved
A Romantic Heart
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1 posted 2008-06-27 12:37 PM


ts perceived violence proving once more
that in contest between man and sea
primordial force will always possess
the last word upon this magical world.

enjoyed these lines...

graeshine2006
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since 2008-06-03
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The Prairie Lands, USA
2 posted 2008-06-27 03:14 PM


Brings me back to my Michigan Lake days.  Nice write.
Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa
3 posted 2008-06-27 03:58 PM


Fabulous write, WW, that ends with the truth!

Helen

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2008-06-27 05:27 PM


simply superb!

I am particularly fond of the beginning!:

"The wild easterly sweeps from the open sea;
gray ocean waves batter a gravelly shore,
their white-crested manes tossed
like some watery hell stallions galloping,
neighing their freedom; thundering madly
over a heaving, frothy wintry moor."

AND the 'absolute' truth expressed in the ending lines!

MUCH grand and sustained applause for this 'penning!'

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
5 posted 2008-06-28 03:55 AM


This is so well written I can hear the roar of the sea and feel the sea spray. Beautiful
and finished off with the ring of truth.
                                  Ida

ThisDiamond
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since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
6 posted 2008-06-28 08:48 AM


..."The last word upon this magical world"
Superb!

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