The tide at sunset

Through my fogged glasses, squinting,
In the fading light, listening,
Using my ears more than my eyes
Sensing the tide coming, rising,
The tide at sunset visible,
In darker shades, a visual film, a liquid patina,
a turn of the color wheel, the hues,
to shades of blue, of gray, of darkness
replaced more by our hearing,
the eternity of the tides…

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May 22, 2023

The tide at sunset

 

May 22, 2023

Sunset nigh

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/sunset-nigh.html

May 22, 2023

Before the light fades further

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/before-light-fades-further.html

May 22, 2023

A castle no more

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-castle-no-more.html

May 21, 2023

Striving onto our beach

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/striving-onto-our-beach.html

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Edited July 26, 2022

onto the beach – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/onto-beach-v2.html

July 23, 2022

onto the beach

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/onto-beach.html

July 21, 2022

returning home - 3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/returning-home.html

July 17, 2022 6:34am

St. Augustine Beach

just north of 10^th St.

St. Augustine Beach, FL

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October 10, 2021

Crossing the plane of the dunes

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes.html

&

edited October 26, 2021

Dinosaur Spines – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/dinosaur-spines-v2.html

edited/new name October 26, 2021

Dinosaur Spines

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/dinosaur-spines.html

October 26, 2021

Wings of the earth-bound angels

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/wings-of-earth-bound-angels.html

October 26, 2021

spines of the palms

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/spines-of-palms.html

edited October 24, 2021

the darkened beach – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-darkened-beach-v2.html

edited October 24, 2021

Crossing the plane of the dunes – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes-v2.html

October 13, 2021

the darkened beach

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-darkened-beach.html

October 10, 2021

Crossing the plane of the dunes

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes.html

edited October 23, 2021

The Dance of the Pelicans – v5

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v5.html

adding stanza 1

edited October 22, 2021

the dance of the pelicans – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v4.html

edited October 21, 2021

the dance of the pelicans – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v3.html 

merged October 21, 2021

another pelican morning – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-pelican-morning-v2.html

edited October 14, 2021

the dance of the pelicans – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v2.html

October 14, 2021

the dance of the pelicans

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans.html

October 10, 2021

another pelican morning

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-pelican-morning.html

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edited March 21, 2021

Beach Sand – v7

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/beach-sand-v7.html

editing version 6

edited July 30, 2015

Beach Sand – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/07/beach-sand-v6.html

(editing version 5)

edited April 2, 2014

Beach Sand – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/04/beach-sand-v5.html

Edited September 20, 2012

Beach Sand – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/beach-sand-v4.html

edited March 5, 2012

Beach Sand – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/03/beach-sand-v3.html

edited September 29, 2010

Beach Sand – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/09/beach-sand-v2.html

&

email May 115, 2008

“I am in eighth grade and I am doing a school

research project called a zine.  In this zine,

it is basically about describing your passion. 

One of the requirements for the zine is putting
a poem in, and explaining your reaction to the poem. 

My passion is Cape Cod, and I chose the poem you wrote, 

Beach Sand,  I love how you described sand in this poem. 

I just had a few questions like,

why did you choose to write this poem?

My response May 16, 2008::

“Funny you should ask. Someone from North Carolina

two days ago asked if they could put this same poem

on a new web site. As I told them, I had written in in 2006,

on the same day as quite a few other poems. I was writing

then specifically about treasured memories of my childhood

and more recent too. I wrote this poem about my joy at the beach.

I am from Westfield, MA growing up and my family would go to

the Cape or up the Maine coast to like Wells Beach or York

many summers when I was a kid. My grandparents on my dad's

side had gone to Old Orchard Beach for summers when my dad

was a kid and they were there on Cape Cod when I was a kid.

In 1988 I went to Hilton Head Island for a week. And in the

mid-1990's I went for like 3 or 4 summers in a row to

Martha's Vineyard. From 1978 to 2001, I lived near

the University of New Hampshire near the seacoast of

New Hampshire. I spent time at Rye Beach, Hampton,

and Great Island Common in New Castle. I just really like

walking the beach, more than just laying sunbathing.

I would walk along the shore looking for beach glass

or go over to the rocks and look for what I could find

in the tide pools. I've included three other poems about

being near the sea, Shoals, Tide Pools, and Tides - Haiku.”

&

July 15, 2006 19:03

Beach Sand

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/03/beach-sand.html

 

 

 

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