By The Sea Side Comments

Wow! ! OUTSTANDING WRITE......The lines are breathtakingly beautiful Valsa and this poem is going on my favourite list!

valsa, your description makes it easy for me to imagine myself into the scene and into your feeling. i particularly like gentle sibilance of the sea. glen

If I twist Andrew Marvel a bit, and may he forgive me for it, I can say that - 'The Sea is a wonderful and place of peace But none, I think, thereby long calmness face' We, as human beings, are nowadays continually forgetting what it was to feel the beauty of Nature.. Maybe because we have destroyed too much of it or maybe it is because our NATURE nowadays is nothing but natural. The rush of our 'modern' lives have made us the 'hollow man' that Eliot talked about, yet very different from his views.. Maybe we have all become a breed between Eliot's Hollow Man and the protagonist of Jibananada Das's 'At Bochor Ager Ek Din' (a poem about the suicide of a man, who had a wife, children, and everything still killed himself for unknown reasons) .. Even our hollowness is impure! This poem, with it's 'radiance', and as many below me have mentioned 'sublimity' (absolutely à la Longinus) makes us pause and look at our lives.. What are we doing? ? We are running after things that has no real values at all.. It's absolutely barren.. But we are in denial.. We deny that we are now incapable of experience the 'radiance' of the 'ethereal'.. Maybe, we can all, either 'stop here, or gently pass' - but whatever our choice be, we will be touched, and at least faintly illuminated by the scent of the seashore; the gentle, mild touches of the words will ring in our ears like music long after it will be heard no more... Another, wonderful, Romantic, spiritually excellent poem Valsa ma'am.. It was an experience to read this. Thank you very much.

You have just taken me to the seaside, and that by just reading your lovely poem. Thanks for sharing-a 10+

Staying by the sea at sunset With its still waters glimmering in twilight And the stray clouds straggling in the sky, My soul undulates with the slow rhythm of waves And in me breaks a light, luminous and clear A glimpse of a radiance - ethereal! ..............beautiful

Very spiritual and sublime indeed.......Valsa.......refreshing the mind with a sense of grandeur.....great piece with great composition

Sublime mirroring, soul sea, division blurred, gone; as a casual reader I undergo a transition, a shift into an unfamiliar but comforting peripheral place. and that's art!

Beautiful written and very true, yes. It comes from the inside, it is only us to blame for our anger... almost felt the sea breeze on my cheeks. Relaxing poem, thank you for share.

Seems written in a philosophical mood it makes nice reading.Liked it.

Wow, this is really a great poem. The sea can give us magical moments of amazing beauty, making it feel as if we stepped out for a while of the frenzy of life giving us flashes of enlightenment. I could very much connect to this poem.

I think, In this continuum of flux/ Is a permanence - abiding and perpetual- are the key lines of this poem..Awesome..

Beautiful poem, very descriptive and well written.

a beautiful poem on sunset and self realization! well written!

lovely poem as usual. [i hate one-liner comments ] thanx