Salty breezes lift away cares.
Color spills across the water,
Too intense for the sky to contain.
Horseshoe crabs dance a blurry ballet,
Twisting and turning in the gentle waves.
Seabirds swim quietly, at peace.
Twilight wanes, in-between day and night.
Summer is ending; school is about to begin.
In-between holds powerful magic.
Tomorrow seems far away,
Yesterday, a pleasant, hazy memory.
The right-now is a time of beauty.
Fleeting, but all the more precious for it.
Copyright 2014 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: Happy Labor Day Weekend! This sunset was photographed on the West Dennis Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
35 thoughts on “In-Between Weekend”
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
That sounds like a perfect day at the beach, very elegant! 🙂
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We had such fun. 🙂
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You have had quite a summer and it is amazing how you kept on writing and sharing with us, too! Brenda, so wonderful to read your poetry with the sort of sad, lingering of summer and the fun, expectant greeting of fall and school time, too!
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Ah, I am always sad when the kids go back to school. I love our summers together. I feel the writing calling me. I have a book to try to finish this month, but my internet has been mostly down for a week. Fingers crossed it’s fixed and not about to die again. 🙂 Hugs, Brenda
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beautiful and exactly how i feel today –
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Teachers feel the same? I guess so. 🙂
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Brenda, your mind is forever creating which is so very cool. Take care, Bill
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Dear Bill, I like constantly creating, it makes me feel so alive. But my children will tell you, I sleep a lot! LOL Hugs, Brenda
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Oh, what a gorgeous poem & picture!! 🙂 I love them both! 🙂 Big hugs to you Fairy-Brenda! 🙂
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Thank you!! Back to school is such a bittersweet time. 🙂 Big hugs to you, angel friend. 🙂
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Now my troll post is up!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Hope you will like it! 🙂
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Right now, a gentle time. Lovely.
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Emotions are running high as backpacks fill up with supplies. 🙂
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Brenda you have just pierced my heart…
I have lived a number of similar moments, similar thoughts
almost as poetically unfolding in my mind as your creation
while walking at our local Beach.
Now all an unrepeatable Memory …some times happy to recall
sometimes trying to forget to hold the tears back…
Photos are not the same, but reading though brought it all back.
May you enjoy many more!
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I wish you were there on the beach beside me, my friend. I think we pass down our appreciation for these things to our children. Maybe even our grandchildren learn those moments from us if we are that lucky.
My children played with the horseshoe crabs, and women walked by with purse-sized dogs. The wind carried all sounds away except those of my children and the waves. I hope I remember that sunset always. Hearing your words, about what that day means to you, adding your layers of meaning to it, makes it even more special to me. We never realize we are making our most precious memories when we are in the middle of making them. Only when we look back do we realize, and the pain of that actually hurts. To know they are gone, is bittersweet.
I struggled with this piece, trying to convey something a bit sore, and tender. I’m so glad you commented, and let me know that I succeeded, even if in small part. It’s such a solitary endeavor being a writer.
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Yes, you hit the target nicely Brenda and brought Life in the picture.
It is still alive in my mind. The Beach brings always great inspirations
but you seem to get them everywhere.
Enjoy an great day!
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Thanks, I try to find the magic. I hope sometimes I succeed. 🙂
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beautiful pairing – sad to say goodbye to summer
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Yes, sad. Here we do it all at once, say good-bye to summer, good-bye to vacation, and hello school year! 🙂
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Lovely poem and photo. I live in MA and the beach areas can be so relaxing and beautiful to visit especially if you want to be “in the moment” like you described. 🙂
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MA is a beautiful place. So many ways to enjoy nature. Are you still in school?
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Yeah. I’m going back to college tomorrow. 🙂
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Have fun! I loved college.
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Very beautidul..my friend!! That photograph was just brilliant .. so calm .. I just coldn’t resist my eyes!! Beautifull.
I hope you are doing well super-mom! 🙂
Regards,
Swetank!
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Having a busy weekend, squeezing the last days of fun from summer and getting ready for school, too. Plenty of peaceful moments, though. Like this one. 🙂
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Beautiful photo Brenda:)
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Thanks. 🙂 It reminded me of your sunsets, you inspired me, but your eye for composition is still superior. 🙂
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i love your words describing my favorite place to be(the beach) and the end of summer! Thank you for some wonderful words!
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Im so glad you like my words. I had such trouble writing about such an emotional time. Somehow, the horseshoe crabs became a metaphor. Of what, I am still deciding. 🙂
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That is so beautiful and calm, I would look at it all day. Love your posts, they always make me smile.
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Thanks, you made my day! Hugs, Brenda
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beautifully wistful!
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As I am wistful… 🙂
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Ahhh an east coast seashore… Here things are different yet it is the same water.
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We made it to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans this summer. A rare event, spanning 3,000 miles. 🙂
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