Sidney Beck Poet Sonnet

On the Beach

ON    THE    BEACH


As a prisoner misses the cell after countless years inside
Or a near-death experience reappears in dreams 
Quelled feelings come and go like the tide
Experience long gone still flows in mind streams

The flotsam and jetsam of a life wrecked
May appear on the beach at tide’s low ebb 
When defences are down and we do not expect
To meet them again mid the strands of life’s web

For the past has not passed, but remains in the now:
Streams of consciousness tumble uncontrolled
And flood themselves into the overflowing scow
Of  the mind  - old and cold,  they fill the hold.

            There can be no present on free dry land
            Without an end to the past of shifting wet sand

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Ilene Bauer July 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM wow! nice sonnet! you've nailed the rhyme and i like the message, too. Sidney Beck July 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM Thanks Ilene, this sonnet actually started out as a funny piece....but then the rhymes came thick and fast so I switched to a serious theme......sometimes a poem takes the reins from my hands hahaha....best wishes as always.....Syd