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Malicious hearts will hurt the empath As summer hurts the winter shore Eroding buffers until burnout Kind retreat, the only cure -- End-of-summer beach Seabirds’ shaky screech Grey gulls too full to cry Bin chooks too fat to fly Sorry shoreline Systems offline Foot pounded Rebounded Flattened… Shrub ripped Wing clipped Sand-sucked Grass plucked Party bruised Cocktail-cruised Cans on conches Fish unconscious Foam and flotsam Wave-blind coxon Soda can crab shacks Neon pink algae tracks Whelk shell graveyard Absent lifeguard **** platoons Naked dunes Cheapened Weakened Exposed… Tidal hangover Coastal leftover Erosion potluck Sitting sea-duck Strong incoming storm surge Winter solstice land purge Quick and shifty beach thieves Cyclone tempest mouth-breathes Recalcitrant brackish aggressor Intransigent briny transgressor Suspensions of sediments modified Walling and breakwaters compromised Over, back, and whitewash makers Bubble, rubble, boil and breakers Weathered, not weathering Tempered, not tempering More block than gavel More grave than gravel All prisoner no guard Grain short of a shard Receding sand-line drift Intensive shoreface-lift Patient unresponsive Highly hypertensive Code cerulean blue… Plant encouragement Shoreline nourishment Sand transplant Grass implant Healing hiatus to homeostasis Swell subsiding King Tide presiding Prince Neap succeeds Warm court accedes Managed realignment Sanctuary assignment Steadfast protections Timid reconnections Gentle, careful, soft, and slow…   A new beach visitor   dips their toe
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Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024 at 4:23 AM UTC
I prefer the beach in springtime
Malicious hearts will hurt the empath As summer hurts the winter shore Eroding buffers until burnout Kind retreat, the only cure -- End-of-summer beach Seabirds’ shaky screech Grey gulls too full to cry Bin chooks too fat to fly Sorry shoreline Systems offline Foot pounded Rebounded Flattened… Shrub ripped Wing clipped Sand-sucked Grass plucked Party bruised Cocktail-cruised Cans on conches Fish unconscious Foam and flotsam Wave-blind coxon Soda can crab shacks Neon pink algae tracks Whelk shell graveyard Absent lifeguard **** platoons Naked dunes Cheapened Weakened Exposed… Tidal hangover Coastal leftover Erosion potluck Sitting sea-duck Strong incoming storm surge Winter solstice land purge Quick and shifty beach thieves Cyclone tempest mouth-breathes Recalcitrant brackish aggressor Intransigent briny transgressor Suspensions of sediments modified Walling and breakwaters compromised Over, back, and whitewash makers Bubble, rubble, boil and breakers Weathered, not weathering Tempered, not tempering More block than gavel More grave than gravel All prisoner no guard Grain short of a shard Receding sand-line drift Intensive shoreface-lift Patient unresponsive Highly hypertensive Code cerulean blue… Plant encouragement Shoreline nourishment Sand transplant Grass implant Healing hiatus to homeostasis Swell subsiding King Tide presiding Prince Neap succeeds Warm court accedes Managed realignment Sanctuary assignment Steadfast protections Timid reconnections Gentle, careful, soft, and slow…   A new beach visitor   dips their toe
©2024 BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge (intransigent) date 21st October 2024. Intransigent is a formal word that describes a person who refuses to compromise or abandon an often extreme position or attitude. It can also describe a thing, such as a system or point of view, that shows the same kind of stubbornness.
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Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024 at 4:23 AM UTC
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