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Serenity

There's a place I sometimes visit in my mind,
where skies steal the soft color of robins' eggs.
Breezes brush through golden sea oats and I find
soft, white sand dunes where I sit and cross my legs
to count multi-hued shells high tide left behind
and listen, as for food, a circling gull begs.
To the sounds of tumbling waves, I meditate,
assured this sense of peace I can recreate.

Finding solutions mandates vigilant thought
beyond noisy freeways and our cluttered lives.
In webs of our own complications we're fraught.
So when a moment of frustration arrives
and snared in the web of life's hassles you're caught,
transport to shores where serenity revives.
Close your eyes, imagination takes you there;
just visit your private place from anywhere.




February 4, 2019
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019


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Date: 2/7/2019 12:13:00 AM
Beautiful, Carolyn. Congrats on your well deserved win.
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Date: 2/6/2019 4:38:00 PM
Lovely--I especially like the color-filled evocations in the 1st stanza. Congrats on your win, my friend.
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Date: 2/6/2019 3:51:00 PM
Carolyn, this is a very creative write and good advice for us all! Congratulations on your win on Mile 16 of my 2019 Poetry Marathon Contest! Thank you so much for supporting my contests. By continuing to place in the contests you are accumulating points toward the final. ~Mark
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Date: 2/3/2019 11:10:00 AM
Nothing calms the spirit like Mother Nature Carolyn. A lovely example for your contest. xxoo : )
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Date: 2/3/2019 9:59:00 AM
What a wonderful place to sit and meditate, Carolyn, this poem takes me there. I can feel the sea breeze in my face and hear the waves rolling in. John
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Date: 1/31/2019 8:11:00 PM
this is just gorgeous, Carolyn. I need to get off here. Did not have time to do much today so I am falling way behind. Anyway, I'm glad I took a look at this one because it is a perfect model for us.
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Date: 1/31/2019 6:03:00 AM
Just beautiful Carolyn. Hard to beat.
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Date: 1/30/2019 1:02:00 PM
What a wonderful example for the contest prompt We all need that special place to escape to Carolyn I also love to go down to the beach to gather my thoughts. It will be difficult to write anything as this bit ill try:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 1/30/2019 12:32:00 PM
Hi Carolyn, You have penned a beautiful and well written example for your contest. I want to go to such a place:-) Alexis
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Date: 1/30/2019 11:44:00 AM
Interesting thoughts penned from the special place in your mind. Creative work. Sara
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Date: 1/30/2019 10:02:00 AM
Carolyn, loving Rispetto, so dreamy, and a great example for your contest ~
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Date: 1/29/2019 7:48:00 PM
Great place! Great sample. Thanks for sharing your talent. God bless you.
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Date: 1/29/2019 4:20:00 PM
I think the first verse will make you the winner of your own contest! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 1/29/2019 2:46:00 PM
WOW! This is really so well written..a wonderful place you created, Carolyn.
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Carolyn Devonshire
Date: 1/29/2019 2:51:00 PM
Thank you, Vijay. It is a sample poem for my new contest.
Date: 1/29/2019 2:27:00 PM
Lovely verse Carolyn, we all need that special place in our minds to escape the hectic pace of life we face daily. Good luck. Tom.
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