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
