“Hold”
Tides ebb, the wheel turns,
sand grains wash out and return.
Hold fast the taut line.
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Tides ebb, the wheel turns,
sand grains wash out and return.
Hold fast the taut line.
Steve D
Aqua-teal waves churn,
black stones a steadfast buttress,
to hold off the tide.
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Crash, hiss, recede, build.
Shallow tides to sweep the feet,
draw into its depths.
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Cool relief washes,
chest rises, falls like the tide.
Ocean in your lungs.
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Undercurrent bass,
low roars and rattling sighs,
a layered chorus.
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Serene horizon
disguising tides in tumult,
like shards of sapphire.
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Like a speck of foam
bobbing between salty swells
to land somewhere new.
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Stresses numbed in waves,
falling away like sand grains,
washed out on the tide.
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Waves charge like armies,
Swarming over rocks – hold fast!
A cyclical siege.
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Though a single wave
Pushes and pulls those around,
Altering currents
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