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The Black Sea

Green

Green

Green

As far as the eye can see

Like,

Green

Green clouds

Hugging the earth

And me

 

Sea

Sea

Sea

Rugged dangerous

Enveloping me

 

The People

The People

The People

Safe and secure in their own skin

Unique in pleasure

Happiness overflowing into me  

 

Green Green

Sea Sea

The People The People

And me

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BlackSea   Turkey   tree   Nature   sea

Tide's Afire

I watch the flares of trickling gold
Hear gentle lapping on pebbles of stone
Sea bound adventurer lift and soar
In orange skies a shadow form

Horizon line, the suns devourer
Her fight begins in reddened anger
Casting fires fingers across the void
Setting oceans tide a line, afire once more

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Ocean   sunset   sea   beach

Destiny

The rock

The rock on a high coast, on which I leant.

Your love, as strong as the rock.               

 

We were

children,

we held eternity blindly; we reached

for a meaning that was greater than life:

destiny.

 

Destiny - word of fools.

Your eye and mine:

they saw

only a hazed horizon.

 

Illusion.

Endless line before endless line

losing time to d...

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destiny   life   future   sea   Hopkins   Dewi Emrys

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