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The Sea |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
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. |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
You have captured nature's passion, in it's magnificent storm. Always a soft spot for the sea. Ambient, or otherwise TD |
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garysgirl  
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Windwalker, I could see your words in a picture through my mind's eye. You painted it perfectly. Hugs, Ethel |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
windwalker Oh, how I would have liked to see this with you....but since I wasn't there, you made me see it with your imagery devine!! Thank you.  |
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