Rabid Rants in Iambic Pentameter

and other stuff

by D. Winter - © 2001.



By the sea, beneath the yellow and sagging moon.
Walt Whitman

By the Sea

The waves rise up and lap the vacant shore
an endless wash of foam that glistens.
The curling white caps with their quiet roar,
are soothing to a burdened soul that listens.

Just sit there in the quiet and the shh.
Feel now the rocking and the pulling
instill a sense of peace, the heartfelt wish;
the ocean's sway magnetic, full, and lulling.

The taste of salt hangs long upon the air;
draw deep each breath and briefly ease your cares
and let it soak through each and every pore.

Too soon you turn away, re-taste the air,
salty wetness on the lip, ringing ear;
returning to a world of bitter tears.





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