At the Beach
The walls
Bursting with flowers
The rocks
Dancing like dots
Along the dunes
The pale sky
Suffused
With understatement
And the sea
Still as sand
As long forgotten dreams
Appear anew
Heaving and anguished
On the smooth shore
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John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019), The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.
I really loved this. And with this one, I admit, I’m envious. Your grasp of Nature in this poem is like a masterclass. My Nature themed poems should be half so good! It’s an inspiring poem in what it portrays, but also it inspires the writer in me because when I look at the less is more mechanics of what you did with the poem, it makes me want to go revise some old poems that didn’t quite work. The flow of the poem is flawless, like the water and the wind. Keep them coming John.
Brother John has been a regular contributor to CMP since 2020, and he’s an outstanding poet! I truly dig his work.