Evening

(I don't often write "poetry" on this blog ... but this one I wanted to share. I was sitting in our bedroom at sunset tonight getting ready to work, and these thoughts came)

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waves

the sound -- only faint crashes against my ear

the low steady rush of a thousand million miles of water

coming to rest on our sandy steps

forward, momentum, babbling bubbles

wash and receed

and kiss my feet

clouds

blue grey billows that cascade across the sky

flowing, changing, resting and reshaping

forever in a blessed cycle of freezing, motion, falling

as liquid life

they slowly churn across my sky

with hints of pink and golden crowning their unseen

kingdoms of imagined splendor

changing every hour

the sun

stretches tired across it's own canvas

muted gold and dusty pink

melting and falling over everything it sees

colors, constantly changing as it leaks and streams through

the holes in the dark blue blanket

that covers this ocean

I watch

the sky being painted

a new color every second

and slowly growing darker

the ocean says goodnight