An ice turtle; a ladybug
An icy planet with icy rings
Why do my eyes see
So many icy
Things?
Fragile circles
Concentric and thin
Til springtime comes,
Then once again
Ice melts
And I
Was lucky to see it all!
A candy-shop of ice
Claws, teeth, caps, cones
White as frosting
Spread across dark counters of rock
When I was at the beach one day, on a breezy walk
I found a fading rainbow on a boulder, drawn in chalk
And then I found another, this one scattered in the sand
Earth-toned little seashells that I held within my hand
I thought I heard these words spoken by the fickle tide:
“Enjoy my rainbows now, before they run away and hide!”
Among the rocks that lined the autumn Nova Scotian shore
We walked along and looked for things left there by ebbing tide
Plucked from land, or scoured from the watery ocean floor
Treasure left in rocky fissures, narrow ones and wide
Seaweed, shells and berries, and barnacles bleached white
Came from the world of living things, brought color to the sea
And pebbles next to water pools, playing games with light
And all of this for us to find, beautiful and free!
I like to go and climb atop
A boulder sitting by the beach
It's not one that a fool can hop
Up on, the top is hard to reach!
I climbed it first upon a dare
And did not want to fall
By slipping from my perch up there
Where I stood twelve feet tall
Quiet like a captain standing
Steady at the helm
Steering towards a distant landing
A far-flung foreign realm
A gull perched on a rock
And watched the waves roll by
With neither cry nor squawk
Nor winking of his eye
Pondering the grass
That grew along the sea
And thought, perhaps, "Alas,
There's nothing here for me..."
With hunger on his mind
He turned and flew away
To see what dinner he could find
Out on the beach that day
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