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Gifts From the Tide

Constantly she toils in the darkness of the heaving sea gathering treasures into her aprons deep; twice a day she knocks, panting, at the shoreline’s wide stretching door, and scatters her abundant gifts for vagabonds like me to reap. Copyright, October 24, 2014 Faye Lanham Gibson

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Date: 6/28/2015 8:19:00 PM
Faye, my partner & I are so enamored of your poem we would like to use it in the introduction of a photography book titled "On the Shore." Could you please contact us so that we could discuss this with you? Your words beautifully match his photographic images. Thanks for responding. maryhelmic@gmail.com
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Date: 10/24/2014 4:31:00 PM
Beautiful Faye. I can see you walking there collecting the treasures. Maybe you would enjoy my poem, Island of Silt. It's also about the tide.
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Date: 10/24/2014 3:24:00 PM
This poem brought me completely to that place my family and I visited last summer, Homer Alaska-right when the tide was at its greatest disparity. Thank you for the image. Very nice poem!
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Date: 10/24/2014 2:02:00 PM
INCREDIBLE personification Faye - I am surrounded by the sea on our little Island - straight into faves and a 7 from me - this is simply fabulous!!! hugs jan xxx
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