Rocks protrude, waves crash,
Mist embraces the shore.
What giant moved these rocks here,
To fight the tide and battle time?
This enchanted place calls to me,
Like Stonehenge by the Sea,
A crossroads between the past and future,
Nothing settled, always changing.
Even the sky changes in a heartbeat,
Water battling earth, air carrying their cries:
Elemental soundings, missing only fire.
Magic enfolds, perhaps the fire is in me.
Copyright 2014 Brenda Davis Harsham
48 thoughts on “Stonehenge by the Sea”
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Enchanting! I’m going to follow you!
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Thanks! I enjoyed what I saw of your blog, too. Warmly, Brenda
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Thank you!
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My pleasure. 🙂
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I feel a strong calming sense of longing and nostalgia in the piece
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It was a beautiful place. A memory I will treasure. 🙂
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It is like Stonehenge by the sea! Very dark and moody in an artistic way, and your poem matches that mood, almost reads like the start of a novel, very good! 🙂
There was a wooden henge actually called Seahenge near where I live. A lot of experts are convinced it has the same purpose that stone henge had, but others think that’s laughable and believe it is a set of stones designed to take the weight of another large stone or wooden area for grinding corn or wheat. It’s possible it is as it’s quite small, nothing like the size of Stonehenge https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=seahenge&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=p8XTU8OXG4qp7Aap-IHoBw&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1360&bih=667 It will probably always be a bit of a mystery! I think your picture here looks a more naturally authentic Seahenge! 🙂
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What a great link, and a cool ruin. Sometimes I think the past is as much of a mystery as the future. We are stranded in the present with only speculation to guide us. 🙂
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Your words bring magic to the scene – I’ve love this latest series of writing.
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I’m so happy you do. I’m having fun with it. 🙂
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Such beauty words and all…
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Thanks!
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Brenda, It appears to be a place with a calming impact, and as always such a beautiful picture you have shared. Take care, Bill
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Thanks Bill, it was a long walk on a boardwalk out there, and almost empty of people. Just a few of us, and lots of seabirds. 🙂
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What a clever way of looking at it – Stonehenge by the sea! A beautiful, magical piece of writing 🙂 x
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I’m so happy you like it. 🙂 It was a special place.
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Magnificent.
Exquisite.
AnElephant is in awe.
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You are lovely! Hugs, Brenda
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It’s so evident you were in love with the sea, nice—
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LOL You are so right!
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the sea is so lovely and mysterious and your words have captured it perfectly
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Thanks, my friend. I don’t see the Pacific Ocean very often, but it is not pacific in the slightest. 🙂
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Even I am enchanted by the place
Yoshiko
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I’m so happy, you would have really loved being there. It was a place to release your troubles. 🙂
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Indeed a good place 🙂 to release troubles
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enchanting poem capturing the ever changing, mysterious shoreline . . . i’m intrigued by those hopefully friendly giants, playing around with all those large stones.
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It was a special place. I found myself clambering over the rocks despite back pain, and despite having decided ahead of time not to do that. LOL
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Nice ending!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Evidence of the “fire” in you is evidenced by your lovely hair.
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LOL Perhaps you are right. I’m especially on fire now in PS!!
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You just sit and watch it for a few minutes and find half the day’s gone. Love the poem – quite inspirational!
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Yes, I took so many pictures but none of them matched the magnificence of being there. I did take some video on my trip, and I plan to put it together once I’m back in town and I’ve backed everything up. Making videos can crash my computer… The sea was such a delight. I much prefer it to being in the desert, where I am now. Hiding indoors in the AC. It was 117 yesterday! That’s 47.2 Celsius according to this handy website: http://www.asknumbers.com/FahrenheitToCelsiusConversion.aspx
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47! Yikes! Even though I spent thirty years in Africa, I still don’t do heat too well – 22 or 23 is getting too hot for me. 25 and I find a nice cold stone floor to stretch out on. Does it cool down at night at all?
I visited my sister when she lived in Dubai some years ago and it was like your place (about 33 I think) and it stayed that temperature all night too – I was only there for a week but that was enough for me! You go to the beach to go swimming at night – just to try to cool down there.
What software do you use to make your videos?
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It cools down to the 90s at night. I make my videos on the iPhone and use iMovie.
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I must give that a go
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I like it, it’s very user-friendly. 🙂
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I feel the mist. Hear the waves. Let’s go.
Beautiful.
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We had such fun there! I have a few more photos from that beach, but haven’t had time for the writing yet. Posting on vacation is a challenge!
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Girl! Don’t I know it. LOL 🙂 It’ll be fun posting them later. Enjoy!
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Thanks!! I’m having a working day today, but then it’s more fun in the sun tomorrow. 🙂
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My b&w blog: http://hanshb.wordpress.com/
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I will take a look. 🙂
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Wonderful!
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Thanks! Your photos are amazing! I had such a good time seeing them.
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Lovely.
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Thanks!!
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