Beautiful the Seashore

How still and beautiful the seashore in morning's twilight Before the sun rises in a clarion yellow mass Etching reflections of seabirds gliding on a sea of glass Awed by such wondrous render when darkness takes flight The waves are rhythmic, I stand in the wet sand and wonder In the distance are red ribbons in dawn's sky to underscore It holds my soul captive as the high tide rushes to shore And rays of light pierce the horizon to split the night asunder A prisoner of nature, captured between sun and sea I'm bewildered and amused, trying to understand The movement of time, as waves toss another grain of sand To quietly remind me, only time will always be And yet, upon this shore where beauty is boundless Lighting a glorious glow in my soul in the palms of the view Absorbing all that I am until I'm refreshed and new And like the grains of sand, life seems timeless 9/5/18 contest Enclosed Rhyme-September 2018 sponsor Dear Heart