Rime of salt on hair and jacket, hands cold<\/p>\n
as mist along the water’s edge, hazing<\/p>\n
the boundary between sea and land to smoke<\/p>\n
smudged shadow, pampas fronds dipping<\/p>\n
low over ocean-darkened sand, and castaway<\/p>\n
wood rolled up onto this solitary shore,<\/p>\n
only to be dragged home as arcane sculpture,<\/p>\n
a giant stick insect on the lawn, or cut up<\/p>\n
for logs that burn with a silvery flare,<\/p>\n
ghost memory of days spent in the half-world<\/p>\n
between sea and strand, all lost now<\/p>\n
in a fiery shower of sparks — ascending. (c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n Published in Yellow Moon<\/u> 18, Summer 2005<\/em><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Yesterday was #GivingTuesday<\/a> so I had to defer the usual poem until today — when I’m back on track with another poem focused around the recent theme of “the sea.”<\/p>\n Driftwood<\/em> is one of my older poems, but I hope you enjoy it all the same. \u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDover Beach\u201d (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBreathing You In\u201d by David Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are more than half water\u201d by Helen Rickerby<\/a><\/p>\n The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Seafarer\u201d Excerpt from the Anglo Saxon poem (Anonymous)<\/a><\/p>\n Two Short Poems by Bernadette Hall<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe woman who swims with jellyfish\u201d by Janice Freegard<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cthe rough sea\u201d \u2014 a haiku by Matsuo Bash\u014d<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n.<\/span><\/p>\nPrior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include:<\/h4>\n