Spring Break

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Young like April, winds
Settling in the limbs of oaks,
Just past the crisp whisper
Cerulean drifting, tides 
Graceful seas reminding me to 
Listen as secrets poured
Past the graceful, splashing on sands
Lingering in the stillness, quietly
Praising in sprays of reassurance,
Silhouettes dancing…
Preventing me from smiling
The unsympathetic waves – cold
Like winter, plaguing my 
Thoughts, splattering my ankles
With desperate mysteries,
Arising from the foamy feelings,
Rushing across the beach – surging
Like history, in the silence
Freeing my heart to breathe in
Darkness that succumbed to the 
Colorless flow of melancholic
Currents, bleeding detached doubts
Emotionless memories – color me 
Blind by the hues of indignant
Dreams, blurred over April’s 
Toes as she tiptoes across the beach
During a spring thaw,
When everything – everywhere
Is icelike, frosty – flurries
Kissing away the joy of arriving
At the beach before the hassled 
Vacationers begin to descend
On the Atlantic, where I found the 
Chill to bring me a sense of peace
Like the warming of the sands
Never had in the past, on shores
Like a prayer, ascending
To be heard by the blesser
The miracle worker, the One
Who created wind and sea,
And everything that remembers
All the spring breaks – living
Inside of me, memorized
By my senses, the pictures
Never taken, but not forsaken
By my recollection of shared
History, the quiet – stardust moments
When light faded into a promise,
And the seas taught me to believe
Even the coldest water….
 can feed my dreams!




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