Leo Larry Amadore Poet Free verse

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Doubtless, aging and other factors contribute to my problems with that dazzling reflected light from the waves which causes those black dots to appear before my eyes, and the same aging and other factors also add to my insistence on merely viewing and not participating in activities enjoyed by the young at the shore.  But the sun and the sand and the sea are still all appreciated by me, in spite of my advancing age.

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Sand and Sea

A light with bite that wounds the eye
is breaker borne. Ashore,
this bright morning burns
black holes upon the retina:
sun spots that dot the dunes.
My vision sweeps, west to east,
a stretch of beach. Each wave,
which breaks then smooths to ripples,
retreating leaves its flotsam:
spume-laden seaweed and shells the sun
will bleach to blinding white in hours.
A swimmer bodysurfs to water's edge.
I sip my tonic, sponge my brow,
and, through tinted glasses, confront
the terrace crowd of others, cowed,
like me, by youth, by sun, by sand and sea.

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Leo Larry Amadore October 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM Although this was a featured poem last week, in October 2012, it received no comments. Was there some problem that no one wished to mention to the writer?

Zzzzz Zzzzz April 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM You paint a vivid scene. Poetic and descriptive.