What offering can we leave the sea?
It has no need of you or me.
The moon can draw forth the waves,
but you and I are but slaves.
Inner anxieties diminish and worries
Lessen in the ocean’s furies.
Peaceful watching the water’s play
Is how I would spend my day.
And yet some sign of thanks are needed
For the peace and joy received.
One of us begins to stack a tall cairn of stone,
With each large rock lifted, a groan.
Each helps and with our effort, fixed on creating beauty
We fulfill our remaining duty,
To show our appreciation for this untamed land
Which gives peace and makes lives grand.
Copyright 2014 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: I dedicate this post to the Artists for Peace, who are trying to make the world more peaceful, one beautiful piece of art at a time. We need more art, more peace, and less war and violence. The first link will lead you to their page of topics, the one for this August being friendship. I chose a topic of thankfulness, because I am thankful for our earth, and I wish to be its friend. I would like to spread a love for our earth’s wild places. If you click on the Artists 4 Peace logo, it will take you to their home page.
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Brenda, I enjoyed the poem, it made sense to me, and it read right for me. Thank you for sharing it and of course the picture from which it grew. Take care, Bill
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Bill, Thanks so much for your vote of confidence. I worked hard on that poem. Rhyming poems take more effort. 🙂 Take care, Brenda
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Really like this one – a lot! Great rhyming and flow and sentiment. Of course, all of your writing is good – I just happened to be one notch above too lazy today, (for now), and actually said so 😉
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Thanks, Hawk, your words are very kind. 🙂 And I’m so glad you were one notch above too lazy, LOL I feel that way often myself.
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🙂
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Fantastic poem (I just love when they rhyme! :))!
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I’ve been on a rhyming kick lately. 🙂 Thanks!
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Is this a West Coast Cairn….?
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Yes, this was at Muir Beach, which I had never heard of before this trip. It’s not far from Muir Woods.
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Yes.. Nice weather.. What more can you ask for…
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It’s 117 in the desert. Temps to be avoided.
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Yeah that’s no fun… Where? Arizona? Head to Sedona!
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Palm Springs, visiting in-laws. Leaving soon. Feel like a bean about to be refried. LOL
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Yeah PS is hot I went on that loan to El Centro near the Salton Sea… Now that is even hotter…el Centro is Mexico light:(
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I haven’t been to the Salton Sea. El Centro sounds hot, hot, hot!
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It makes Palm Springs feel like Frostbite Falls..
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No way, not at 117!!
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The three weeks I was there it never got below 95 at 1am in the morning.. Everything is bone dry.. Did you fly from the Bay Area to PS?
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It’s in the 90s here at night, too, and everywhere you turn, endless sand dunes and desert. Yes, we flew. I can’t do that much driving with my bad back. I did want to drive down to Monterey and Carmel, but we only had time for so much.
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I truly don’t see the thing about people heading to PS.. Did you go on the gondola car to the top of that mountain… It’s hot at the bottom and freezing cold up above… Swanky resorts but take about everyone getting turtle skin… Yuck… Have fun!
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Visiting in-laws. I chose Sausalito. 🙂 It was fun and gorgeous.
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Wonderful!
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Thanks!
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What a beautiful poem, Brenda! Thank you so much 🙂
☮ ❤ 🙂
Melanie
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My pleasure. 🙂 Thanks for your kind words. 🙂
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what a lovely tribute to the sea
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Thanks! It was very peaceful. My son made that cairn, but we all helped.
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As you know, AnElephant too loves the sea, and often writes about it.
But with less skill than this little masterpiece contains.
Thank you.
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I love what anElephant writes of the sea. 🙂 And thanks!!
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You are a good friend of the earth!
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Thanks!
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Lovely poem and for a good cause. xxx
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Thanks, I hope you’ll post in support of peace, too. 🙂
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I shall have to think what I could dedicate are there any rules?
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Check out the link, they are very embracing. 🙂
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is Lovely, Brenda ❤
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Thank you!
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so beautiful dear 🙂
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Thanks!!
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Gratitude for this blessing
Yoshiko
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Thanks for your lovely comment. Your words are appreciated. Hugs, Brenda
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Welcome, Brenda, and am glad to feel appreciated
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