Standing here on the shore of life
A coastline battered by violence and strife
Behind me churns an angry sea
Ahead lies a road unknown, as yet, by me.
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Very beautiful, Fiona. My poem 'Across the Night' seems to be a different take on this poem which is yours...There are times I wish to 'wash it all away' as well...Great write...
From life's fair shore the wish for more helps soar above life's angry sea whose violent churns soul spurns - in store a road unknown may set hope free. Bright light may guide from deep inside wide vision may unravel life's mystery, see clarified solutions as you travel. No fears, no tears, hope's scope endears sight to eyes which insight recovers, hears through inner ears, new rune tunes joys incite. Past storms at last are over, cast behind, mind, soul, washed clean, while vistas vast unveiled may fast set scene for Hippocrene. No desert here, nor mirage drear, - beneath tomorrow's sky twin moons appear, - Mars, Venus dear, luck, love, personnify