Beach Scenes
On the beach, singing songs, feeding seagulls,
walking around in circles figuring hieroglyphics
in the sand with a stick weaving motions as waves
weave, crisscross on currents continually move
in or moving out taking my sand composed stories
with them. Conversations on beaches; a wind
returned from out on the bay, the pages
of a notebook flecked with sketches begun and
abandoned. And because you are relaxed; mirages
out there which you know you are part of when
the sun goes down a beach fire lit. Eyes over
the flames. Are they mine?
Benita H. Kape © 10.4.2018
Finally, here is our (optional) daily prompt. Usually, we take inspiration from our craft resource, but since our resource is about revision, we’ll go a bit further afield for this one! Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of simultaneity – in which multiple things are happing at once. A nice example might be Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died”, or this powerful poem by Sarah Green.
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