The Song Of The Sea

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The boy, he sits upon the cliff,

head bowed down and his tears streaming —

back home, his mother ’s cold and stiff

as if asleep, but not dreaming.

She washed ashore just yesternight

after a week missing abroad;

she had left the farm aft a fight

with her husband, that sorry sod.

From off this cliff the mother fell

while gathering up bitter tears,

thinking whether she ’d wait a spell

and return home, despite her fears.

But bleak and bitter was the moor

and the world was but a shadow,

the Song of Tides surged on the shore

and the moon called with a mad glow.

Down she fell into the ocean

as if of mind to be as free,

as some say, or so their notion

that she chose the tides of the sea.

For tides fling up along the bluff,

strumming a song of froth and spray,

and though it can be hard and tough,

there ’s no hatred in its way.

For the sea has a strong embrace

that can crush what it loves to death,

yet still she plunged from that high place

so the sea could take her last breath.

Unlike a man when in his drink

whose hands tighten to two hard fists,

the sea surges, but does not think,

splashing softly with its flung mists.

And though her body lay on land,

her soul is still in the free tide…

Look!  The son reaches out a hand

where flung-fingered froth becks inside.

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Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He also writes Supernatural Romance under the name S.C. Foster (because his fiancee pushed him to do so). He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also. https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Marshall/e/B07536QKD9?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_fkmrnull_1&qid=1554215427&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

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