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Lyn's October Post

10/5/2014

3 Comments

 
Scraping a path

Remember how the surf’s roar

caught our words and tossed them away?

How we halted at the edge, discussion stalled?

 
Easier to stare out to sea,

gaze on wide water.

There was nothing more to say.


And just as we turned away we stumbled

on those turtles, dark leather babies,

legs whirring, scraping a path to the sea.

 
You stretched out a toe, nudged them

from their zig zag track. We watched them flounder,

bob in the surf, get flipped ashore, begin again.


Then the waves took them away.

 
© Lyn Browne

3 Comments
Judy
10/5/2014 07:03:31 am

We enjoyed your poem at the Pente meeting Lyn.

As always, I am stunned by your ability to say so much, in so few words.

Judy

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Brad
10/8/2014 05:29:05 pm

Well, you managed to say a lot there Lyn, in a most economical fashion … as you always do. 'What lies beneath' (was a movie title somewhere, I think) seems a fitting subscript to what is a powerful but beautiful piece of work. Nicely expressed and goes right to the heart.
Brad

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Dee
10/14/2014 09:48:22 pm

I did like this poem, it has a feeling of nostalgia, reminiscing over a special time. So few words saying so much. Lovely.

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