Best Friendshipsummer Poems


How's the Desert?

salt spray lingers in on shore wind 
shivers threaten in late summer sun 
wet sand sinks to cool hot soles 
as toes tingle in filling holes 
sea grass swirls in tidal current 
brushstrokes crosshatching 
in three dimensional canvas 
a half shell flickers in refracted sunlight 
rainbow flashes tease a hungry scup 
To dart away in discontent 
The jetty glistens in green slime 
while the rocks in their white dryness 
spatter with drops from passing wakes 
gulls wheel and dance intricate loops 
effortlessly filling the misty air 
flying in every direction without touching each other 
One stands on the highest spot 
Looking bored and above all this activity 
an occasional cloud forms to drift whitely 
before dissipating in summer heat 
All of this and none of this happened 
in the lazy mind of one ethereal poet 
to entertain another for the joy

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