Tanka 5

today's gray tides wash
sands where love's warm feet wandered . . .
i watch the sobbing 
surf scour the white surface smooth
leaving only tears of shell

Copyright, March 25, 2015
Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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