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Day's End The setting sun melts like an orange sorbet, trickling across the cotton clouds. It leaves golden puddles on the water's glassy surface. Pelicans, caught on the soft currents, circle, then fall like bombs, shattering the water with a brutal splash. Gulls laugh, as they silhouette against a pink-mauve sky. Palm trees shake their bushy heads at the warm twilight breeze. Night comes, spilling its quilted blackness over the water like thick ink. One by one, pin lights pierce the dark. The moon pours its milky whiteness across the sand. All is black and white, until the sun, once again, begins its climb from deep within the ocean's well. |
Additional Notes:
This poem was first published at Poeticallyspeaking.net in July 2001. As I live in
in Florida, very near the water, colorful sunsets and dark, velvet, star-filled
nights are a real treat. I hope I captured the beauty of one particular sunset
that I found truly mesmerizing. I deliberately made the last verse longer, because
I did not want to break up the flow. Let me know how this works.
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