#seaglass
The salty breeze
Such a nostalgic smell
As we comb the beach
Looking for shells
As the gulls overhead
Squawk and they cry
We lie in the sun
Not a cloud in the sky
All these unique rocks
As far as can see
And each of them has
Their own story
My hair always tussled
By the breeze
I walk and I smile
And I look out to sea
Apr 4, 2016
Apr 4, 2016 at 8:59 PM UTC
i am seaglass
collect me along the shore
i am once jagged edges
now dulled by time and salt
wounds full of salt
i have forgotten what sweet is
foggy clouded
clarity lost for the sake of beauty
i am discarded
collect me along the shore
i am scattered in pieces
that no longer fit together
curves and waves
i am tough i am smooth
i have lived my life in rough waters
water and rock
have rearranged my shape
i am under your feet
collect me along the shore
Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 4:46 PM UTC
Yawning ocean current swallows
hollow bottles crushed for blasting
back to shore exquisite sparkles.
Grace that bears our abject sorrows
costs a change forever lasting:
birth again as broken marvels.
Apr 4, 2021
Apr 4, 2021 at 12:53 PM UTC
I'll take my own experience,
Wrap it up and tie it in a bow.
I'll take all the things I've felt,
Make it poetic and put it in a show.
I will build walls around my heart,
Then talk about how roses bloom in the cracks.
And I'll tell them how you kisses me where you punched,
But never tell them I punched back.
I will write monologues about the sky
And how it reminds me of your hair
Or perhaps a sonnet
About how I never really cared.
I'll take my abandonment issues and sob stories
Into the palm of my hand
Then crush it into stardust
And try to be the sea glass in a beach full of sand
But no matter how many
Metaphores or analogies I create
I can make words beautiful
But never my feelings fake.
We are poets stuck in a cycle,
Blooming blossoms that never change.
We are artists making art
Out of the beauty of pain.
Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 12:41 PM UTC
Green eyes, worn
Like sea glass left behind.
Unsure, impure, so full of faults.
The pull irresistible
Wave after wave of sagacity.
I won’t falter,
But, gladly, I’ll drown
In pools, sea glass green.
May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 11:45 PM UTC