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    Standing On Soothing Shores

    Standing On Soothing Shores


    The rolling tide massages shore
    And feet that seeks its soothing hands
    My agony sweeps out to sea
    Away, amidst receding sands

    My hurt, these waves - they've met before
    For years I've come to stand and cleanse
    But though my woes flow from these toes
    The wrinkled soles retain their sins

    The salty breeze, it sings to me
    A cheerful sun bequeaths relief
    For death, divorce, all lifes' remorse
    Have found a home within the reef.

    And I shall stand and in waves today
    As all my thoughts just fade away

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xillus_Xavier View Post
    Standing On Soothing Shores


    The rolling tide massages shore
    And feet that seeks its soothing hands
    My agony sweeps out to sea
    Away, amidst receding sands

    My hurt, these waves - they've met before
    For years I've come to stand and cleanse
    But though my woes flow from these toes
    The wrinkled soles retain their sins

    The salty breeze, it sings to me
    A cheerful sun bequeaths relief
    For death, divorce, all lifes' remorse
    Have found a home within the reef.

    And I shall stand and in waves today
    As all my thoughts just fade away
    What a marvelous idea you came up with to pen such a beautiful piece of literature. Of course I seek the stuff you rendered in this in poems.

    This poem has two things to present: First there is a limitless sea; secondly, the poet is agonized. The two coming together in close proximity sharing something which is so intimately common to both of them.

    Here the wonderful aspect of the poem is the tide or the wave that takes away the pain or soothes the anguished.

    Of course opposing things are at times positive impacts. Here the rather furious sea is soothing the beholder.

    I really am moved by the poem.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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