These comments are so kind -- I hardly know how to respond. But I'm so grateful the poem conveys a little of what it is to be "at the edge of things so vast" (Barbara Toomey). Thank you. And thank you, Joseph. :-)
(I got pretty sunburned and fell into the surf trying to find words for this one. My notebook and I are still a bit brined...)
I like the images Isabel invokes and how she is using rhyme gently and at the same time choosing her words carefully to suggest the very thing we all do when we find ourselves at the edge of things so vast such as time, belief, and the very essence of from where and whom we might have come. All the best, Isabel!
This is a beautiful photograph and poem. I loved ‘A slant sun keeps precarious/balance on the slipping margins of each/wave's cohesion.’ I live at the water’s edge and write poetry too. It amazes me how each beach differs and how many ways there are to capture our impressions in poetry.
Some poems stop me in my tracks and I have to print them out so I can hold the words in my hands and read them again and again. This is one of those.
Tremendous. And the beauty intensifies at the end.
Beautiful!
Just lovely. Thank you!
Gorgeous!
These comments are so kind -- I hardly know how to respond. But I'm so grateful the poem conveys a little of what it is to be "at the edge of things so vast" (Barbara Toomey). Thank you. And thank you, Joseph. :-)
(I got pretty sunburned and fell into the surf trying to find words for this one. My notebook and I are still a bit brined...)
I like the images Isabel invokes and how she is using rhyme gently and at the same time choosing her words carefully to suggest the very thing we all do when we find ourselves at the edge of things so vast such as time, belief, and the very essence of from where and whom we might have come. All the best, Isabel!
Love it. I’ll check out her other works! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this Joseph.
This is a beautiful photograph and poem. I loved ‘A slant sun keeps precarious/balance on the slipping margins of each/wave's cohesion.’ I live at the water’s edge and write poetry too. It amazes me how each beach differs and how many ways there are to capture our impressions in poetry.
Exquisite. Thank youl
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I love your poem and left a comment for you at Joseph Massey’s page. Beautiful poem. Now following.