WAVES
Countless, phosphorous, rushing
and over the smooth stones, they fall
Overlapping earth boundaries
wearing at the harsh edge of form
Gathering, shaping, smoothing
destinies, times mementos
Here they lift, there they fail
each one a measured throw
a dancing, cavorting, riderless bay
Clothed in silver foam
and garlands of spray
Magnificent for a brief, fleeting mo’
Then back and into the hapless,
shapeless eddy
Drawing circles, describing outline
shape and semblance
To what otherwise would be
only mauve history and uncertainty
What is today but a collection
of faded, picture postcards?
Mounted, framed and collected
for a future generation
Who may study the serious
tale they tell or maybe none the wiser
Only fools who rush and sweat
with no thought or remedy
no system of retrieval
But caught here in the time warp
of eternal messengers relay
The grey waters riders blossom
glisten and thunder
Not just mentioning the tale
but positively shouting
to the earth’s receding outline
Here I am and have been
Always ‘Ever and Sure’
Give me your attention
and let me speak to
your next shallow generation
O’ tireless, disarmed and eager
Your army marches on
Wave upon wave
upon endless wave.
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writtenbyedenbray26.05.1990
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#Authors Note ~ This a poem I wrote in 1990. It’s a kind of techno-poem written at a time when my eternal view and my worldview were merging pretty well I feel. I suppose it’s a kind of ‘hybrid’ – fusing modern nature with future hope and centered on that almost eternal quality that crashing waves on stones hold in their grasp.
I have decided to archive my past poems on this site so that my children and my grandchildren and friends might hopefully find them and read them, for you never know when ‘your wave’ is coming. ~ edenbray 21.04.2018