Lovely and evocative, Ivan--makes me wish I'd been there too !



>^^^^^^  WARM GREETINGS  FROM  ^^^^^^^^^^^^  :-)
> Ivan Suzman        51/39/36       [log in to unmask]      :-)
> Portland, Maine    land of lighthouses       10  deg. F   :-)
>********************************************************************
> Dear friends,
>
>   On Saturday,  I walked on the beach
>about 20 miles southwest of my home,
>at Fortune's Rocks, Maine.
>
>    Out of my memories comes
>a new, 4-part poem , "Milennium
>at Fortune'sRocks,"  which I am placing
>here on the PIEN list, to ask for peace
>for all of us in the PD Community.
>
>Best wishes for 2001 to you all .
>Sincerely,
>
>PWP Ivan Suzman  :-)
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Millenium at Fortune's Rocks
>
>                 1
>
>A tooth-chattering wind
>floats bits of seaspray
>upon a storm-scoured shore
>
>I am cleansed, and awed
>by massive, cold,  blue waters
>
>which stretch limitlessly
> to Rejkjavik, and equally to
>Gibaltar,  Dakar,
>and Cape Town .
>
>
>                2
>
>Ice-embedded stems
>of winter dunegrass
>sparkle, silvery-white,
>mirroring the sunlight.
>
>They lean,  they oscillate,
>shimmering in the solstice's
>low, piercing sunlight,
>
>against a peach sherbet sky.
>
>Brilliant,
>and  blinding,
>they are bright like chandeliers
>multiply reflecrted
>in a fairyland of gemstones.
>
>
>                    3
>
>Just ten yards from crashing waves,
>a sea gull sits,
>seemingly  obliviously,
>motionlessly
>and almost oceanlessly,
>one webbed foot upon the fine-grained sand.
>
>
>                   4
>
>At the horizon,
>sea-greens blend with blue-grays
>
>and ice-green skies are floodlit
>behind pink and lavender sea clouds.
>
>A single skein of Canada geese
>
>  >
>
>                  >
>                             >
>                     >
>               >
>
>     >
>
>floats over a few human footprints
>which lead the eye
>to the water's edge.
>
>The trail disappears in  bubbling salt water,
> fizzling upon the sand .
>
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>copywright@12-25-00
>ivan suzman



        Camilla Hewson Flintermann              <[log in to unmask]>


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                          "...everywhere I go,
                              I find that a poet
                              has been there
                              before me..."
                                  ...Sigmund Freud