John Anderson Poet Free verse

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Footprints - Indelible Stamps

Footprints in sand, indelible till the tide comes in,
reliable impressions, etched, embedded, enveloped 
to form an album of traces:
crab hole excavations,
scurries of hurrying birds,
seaweed twirls wind-driven in curls,
tiny sand flea hop-craters,
crab claw side-step shuffles,
drift-wood scuffs and scuppers
remnants of tidal riffles and ruffles,
snap-shots of scrapes, stomps, scats and scars.

Footprints like graffiti deface the awe of seascape shore
with a mushyheaded mishmash of double-exposed impressions.

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Darlene De Beaulieu April 5, 2018 at 8:10 PM Hello John, there are a lot of footprints in the sand,and seashells as well. I have seen the drift wood laying on the sand. A lovely poem. have a nice evening my friend.