tides

[CdnReader]

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i sit at the shore
mesmerized by the tides
that rise and then subside

the water comes to me
filling the sand with pools
of reflected sunshine

then the world tilts
and the sea flows back to you,
leaving me empty

like the ocean,
i search for balance
within the endless motion...
the ebb and flow...
of life and love

the tides that rise
and then subside

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[PrinceMyshkin]

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i sit at the shore
mesmerized by the tides
that rise and then subside

the water comes to me
filling the sand with pools
of reflected sunshine

then the world tilts
and the sea flows back to you,
leaving me empty

like the ocean,
i search for balance
within the endless motion...
the ebb and flow...
of life and love

the tides that rise
and then subside

.
cdn/17jun07
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I especially love the way those last two lines recapitualate line 3, but seem to leave one dangling, hoping but not knowing with absolute certainty whether those tides will rise once again. They leave one on the whole in a disappointed frame of mind, as perhaps every subsiding must do, but with something of a wise acceptance of what must be.

Which reminds that in the margins of one of his late, chamber works, Beethoven, evidently in some despair, wrote "Muss es sein?" (Must it be) then answered his own question below that: Es muss sein. (It must be.)

[CdnReader]

Thank you, Jer. This poem has great personal meaning (as you well know), and is very special to me. I'm glad you like it too.

[ampoule]

I miss the ocean so much. Thank you for this early morning picture.
If love is alive it is always moving, but I agree, a balance would sure be nice. Sometimes we're drowning in it and other times we're......darn it anyway. **SIGH**

[PrinceMyshkin]

I miss the ocean so much. Thank you for this early morning picture.
If love is alive it is always moving, but I agree, a balance would sure be nice. Sometimes we're drowning in it and other times we're......darn it anyway. **SIGH**

How apropos that you wrote "darn it" rather than dam it!

[ampoule]

Well, phooey! I wish I'd thought of that. ;)

[CdnReader]

Yes, ampoule.... I'm definitely with you on the **SIGH**....

And I repeat....
.....*sigh*..............