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Nowick Gray's avatar

well said...

and a fitting photo.

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Mankh's avatar

thx and photo from whence the poem first began to speak

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Sabrina Page's avatar

Beautiful. Thank you, Mankh.

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Mankh's avatar

thx, Sabrina

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Robert's avatar

i often walk along the shore

unable to recall when there was no war

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Mankh's avatar

Yeah, Robert, so-called progress has its issues.

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Peter d'Errico's avatar

beautiful and powerful...

i looked at the photo for awhile before i started reading... haven't been to the shore for some time... used to be there frequently... anyway, i turned to your words and lo! .. they said exactly what i was remembering as i looked at the photo:

"when the harbor waters

make that noise

flowing onto the pebbled sandy shore"

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Mankh's avatar

Thanks, Peter, and shows how some of what the waters/shore stirred in me is, naturally, of the waters. And your approach is 'funny' b/c at first i put the photo before the poem, but then decided to put it after, as wanted people to see what they see first from the words. You didn't follow the rules :) but it worked out fine.

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