THE SEA

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THE SEA
As I stand and look out to sea
The sound beckons me closer
The waves curl around my toes
Reaching out and draws me in
It slowly closes in around me
Rapping itself around my legs
I connect and really hear the sea
Its voice whispers and reassures
I breathe deep and feel at one
The waves lap around my body
It lifts me and allows me to float
Slowing I drift into its embrace
I feel at peace and so totally free
I know I need to go, return soon
But it’s much stronger than me
It wraps itself so, so tightly
Warming every part of me
Its glistens beckoning me back
It knows I am not ready yet
I thank the sea for understanding
The emptiness as I return to shore
Hits me like a huge tidal wave
The unspoken words turn to tears
I must go for now, but will be back
I will always return, it’s a part of me
It understands where others fail

Alyson Bradley – May 2008
Feeling so at odds in the real world
I often go to the sea to find my answers...

thank you asplanet, for the good verse.

Merle

THE SEA

Let me ride the tail
Of the blue-eyed whale,
Use the ocean for a pillow,
While the cobalt sea
Tosses me
On waves that hiss and billow.

Oh, the world heaves up
And the world falls down
While the waves rise up so high -
From their knife edged tip
Green teeth flip
Diamonds into the sky.

The sapphire wind
Herds ragged clouds
To the line at the end of it all,
While the pale moon floats
O'er the wind's wild goats
With a bounce like a ghostly ball.

Deep down below
Where shadows go
With thick snaky arms and teeth.
Great black things
On leathery wings
Move in waters as deadly as Lethe.

But the top of the sea
Makes me see, makes me free
Where the air stings my throat like a blade.
All the gulls tumble by
Through the eye of the sky
In a circus cavalcade.

Wave of Emotions

At low tide
Sea sparkles like a crystal drop
Water like a cool blue Lagoon
Pressure decreases, stays still
Gentle currents rise and fall
Light, bight, surreal, peace
A swirl of warmth embraces me
When will the next wave come

At high tide
Sea levels raise no escape
Switches like a tidal wave
Mass of water sucks me in
Crashes down so harshly
Powerful energy force drains
Hard, Dark, cold, suspension
Impacts my whole way of being

Alyson Bradley – April 2008

FORMATION

The patterns of the world wash in
Across the sands of mind
And ripple through the thoughts which drift
And scatter unaligned
'Til gently rocking back and forth
Their edges catch and bind.

They bind and mat in patterns that
Echo those outside
To map the weavings of the world
That glisten, slip and slide
And change in forms extremely strange
Which shatter and collide.

We construct ourselves upon
These waves of sight and sound
Collecting from these drifting thoughts
An entity that's bound
To shifting inside structures
And whatever runs aground.

Sand did you write that, I really like it...

Someone else with a connection, affinity with nature. I

have heard it said "The 'NT' way is man-made. Not natures design."

Glad you liked it. I've written quite a bit of poetry but not much lately as it's hard for me to find new topics and I'd rather not repeat myself. One of my basic problems is that I have great difficulty understanding why most people do most of the things they do which may be a common AS problem.

I have only recently really started writing poems and I find it a wonderful way to express things that maybe for now are easier unsaid!

Welcome to read what I have done so far:
http://asplanet.info/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=74

I would love to add some of your poems to my web site, as I agree quite often AS people find it hard to understanding others.... and there poems often gives a great insight...

Contact me email if wish to...

Thanks for letting me see your work.
I have a blog at http://sandfile.blogspot.com/ but it is mostly biographical with only a few poems and a few pieces of graphics.
A couple of my friends have put up more of my poetry at http://www.familyhomefront.net/JanSandOne.html
http://www.familyhomefront.net/JanSandTwo.html
http://www.artvilla.com/mair/sand.htm

But I have written the better part of a thousand poems over the years.

My e-mail is [email protected]

If you are really interested you could send me your mailing address and I could send you a disk of all my poetry.