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RMW
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since 2001-03-21

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0 posted 2001-03-27 08:15 PM

Beach Combing With a Friend

The sea makes no promises,
Except to conform us
To its own way of doing things. And so
We come to sense a different kind
Of being.
Progress, like the tide, finds
Meaning
Not so much in forward marching
As in the ebb and flood
That bring us ambling from point to point.
And if voyaging from sand dollar
To urchin
To whatever it is that the seagull has just given up
Pecking
Lacks the romance of celestial navigation,
Know this:
Even the most disparate tracks,
When looking back, suggest some form
Of constellation.

RMW

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

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with you

1 posted 2001-03-27 08:19 PM

this is wonderful

SEA

RMW
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2 posted 2001-03-27 08:28 PM

SEA....thank you kindly. Bob

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

3 posted 2001-03-27 08:30 PM

A wise man you are, Bob.

Corinne

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

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4 posted 2001-03-27 08:37 PM

Corinne....no, not really. It's more....(My cocker...Irish Cream...just came up and put his head on my foot. Perhaps he's telling me to refrain from the philosophical).

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

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missouri

5 posted 2001-03-28 12:47 PM

LOL oh no Bob...if Irish ia as her name sounds...philosphy is her heritage...your words and the scenes they conjure in my mind...just wonderful...sand dollars...oh yes

Jamie
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since 2000-06-26

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Blue Heaven

6 posted 2001-03-28 02:12 PM

Nice poem-- careful too much thinking makes your head hurt...lol

Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".

Just A Woman
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since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

7 posted 2001-03-28 02:15 PM

Wonderful insight! I loved this. You've captured the ocean, Bob.

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live"

~Vittorio Alferi~

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

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8 posted 2001-03-28 02:19 PM

Paula and Just A Woman...thank you kindly. Bob

Jamie....You've made me laugh. I owe you. Bob

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

9 posted 2001-03-28 03:19 PM

Gee, Bill, it's more what? Okay, I'll add mysterious to the list!

Corinne

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

10 posted 2001-03-28 03:24 PM

Corinne....chuckling....(Bill?)....Ah, the fate of all newcomers on the block. (Just teasing...."You can call me Joe"....thank you Tom Hanks!!!!!!!)

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

11 posted 2001-03-28 04:11 PM

Yikes, sorry about that!

Corinne

Irish Rose
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12 posted 2001-03-28 04:14 PM

This poem meant a lot to me. I saw the ocean for the first time last year, and no, it doesn't make promises and the tide never breaks them. Enjoyed.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

13 posted 2001-03-28 06:29 PM

makes me want to take a walk. . .

great job Bob. . .

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Meadowmuse
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since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

14 posted 2001-03-30 01:58 PM

Nicely put, Bob, especially the nudge of gentle irony. I'm enjoying your work.

Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau

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