Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea foam green, azure, titanium white, and ochre.
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Categories:
sandpipers, child,
Form: Haibun
The Sandpipers Call
The Sandpipers Call
Sandpipers Call amongst the garbage
along the shore,
Tumbleweeds dance from dusk till dawn
Tumbleweeds roll as time goes by,
And time should stand still for love?
But:
Only Tumbleweeds roll roll back and fro making love to the wind.
Flying lost, in a blue sky,
never knowing why,
Doves
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Categories:
sandpipers, allegory, angel, bird, death,
Form: Free verse
Footprints and Sandpipers
FOOTPRINTS AND SANDPIPERS
On a recent walk along the beach…where the ocean meets the land
what captured my attention were all the footprints in the sand.
We watched sandpipers darting to and fro
tiptoeing between the water and the land
pursuing their next meal…leaving tiny footprints in the sand.
We saw people walking, families playing, children making castles with their
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Categories:
sandpipers, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Painting Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up my easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed my colors onto the palette...sea foam green, azure blue, titanium white, and ochre.
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Categories:
sandpipers, daughter, relationship,
Form: Haibun
Dancing In the Sandpipers Ruins.
The walls have fallen and the grounds overgrown,
If you’d never been here you might never have known,
The stair that lead nowhere from the cracked ocean deck,
With the waves of the hurricane slowly it’s swept,
The light from her windows once lit up the Atlantic,
From all over they came for that weekend romantic,
To take long evening walks
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Categories:
sandpipers, happiness, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Epyllion