Seashore

conch shell on the shore

awaits waves from the ocean,

fishnets from boat falls  

~0~0

stones and shells

fill the crystal vase,  

empty shore

Posted for Haiku Heights:    Prompt is Seashore

This is part of National Poetry Writing Month.

To the sea

take me to the sea,  
lay me down the sands


warmed by salt marsh snails and mottled weeds,
hollowed by the restless crabs and lonely footprints    


bring me far where the white gulls fly,
bonded to craggy rocks and cliff edge


then  


wash me in plumage grey,
wash me in sun webbed rays,    


my wingtips quiver for the sky   


  
Posted for D'verse Poets Pub:   Poetics: Patterns, Pictures and Poems - My writing is still influenced by Manoel de Barros's poetry. 


Everything from this place has a pact
            with birds.
Here if the horizon reddens a little,
            the beetles think it’s a fire.
Where the river starts a fish,
                        river me a thing
River me a frog
River me a tree. 



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The obstacle is the path

We can get lost and go into many stumbling blocks in our journey through life.
But if we believe in ourselves and in the Divine Hand that guides us, we will always find our footing, pace and direction.   Oftentimes, the path becomes clear after going through the challenges and “obstacles” along the way.

“The obstacle is the path.”

Zen Proverb
Baltic Sea Picture

Picture credit: http://anton-agarkov.livejournal.com/65726.html?view=881854#t881854