“Old Man and the Sea” II by AnneMäenurm

I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.

Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

From: To Earthward by Robert Frost

Nature’s Firework by Zimmergimmer

Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true.
And the line where the incoming swell from the sunset Pacific
First leans and staggers to break will tell all you need to know
About submarine geography, and your father’s death rattle
Provides all biographical data required for the Who’s Who of the dead.

From: A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren

Sunburst by gaz610

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.

From: Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot

Footprints of a lone walker
reflecting deep thoughts
in the trail left behind.
Thoughts, many as grains of sand
Swirling around her feet
The Ocean’s lament, ongoing
as the thoughts in her head.

From: Footprints in the Sand by Cindy Kreiner Sera

And wine for the tremulous debauchee!
It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,
It maketh the faint one strong again;
It comes o’er the sense like a breeze from the sea:
All freshness, like infant purity.

From: Water!–Oh! Water For Me by John Pierpont

Insecurities seems to be the trend
Is this what you truly want to defend?
Can fondness time truly transcend?
Broken fences need to now mend

From: Broken Fences by Wilfred Mellers

The Shallow Seas by Michael Anderson by AndersonImages

So life lets you have a sandwich, and pie for your
late night dessert. (Pie for the dog, as well.) And
then life sends you back to bed, to dreamland,
while outside, the starfish drift through the channel,
with smiles on their starry faces as they head
out to deep water, to the far and boundless sea.

From: Starfish by Eleanor Lerman