CRANE BEACH TREASURE

Vicki J Vogt 1953 (Washinton, D.C.)

December 23 


I didn’t think I would miss the beach
I am not one to sit in the sand and bake,
but a friend asked me to go one Fall afternoon.

Along the way, the trees were starting
to change their colors,
slowly shedding from green
to red, orange, yellow.

The beach was sandy and warm.
We watched people and their dogs,
sitting on a large petrified piece of wood
sharing poetry.

Found ourselves at another beach…
no people,
just the seagulls,

an occasional jogger .

We spoke of life and death,
the beauty and ugliness
of the world.
Then a stillness, calmness
as we closed our eyes

to listen to the water
lapping the shore,
the gulls screeching,

and boats off in the distance.

A silence of friendship
a treasure.

About this poem

I wrote this poem after spending the day at the beach with a good friend and fellow poet.

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Written on June 23, 1953

Submitted by Vogtv on December 27, 2023

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Scheme AXX BXXX XXXX AXX C XDXDX CXB X XC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 713
Words 155
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 3, 1, 5, 3, 1, 2

Vicki J Vogt

I have been a librarian at the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown, MA for over 35 years. My poems have appeared in Molt Journal, Haiku Journal, Mused, and The Bashful Beaver. I won 1st Place in the 2021 Rockport Haiku Contest. I have self-published a book of haiku titled glimpses: a glance into haiku. My hobbies are writing poetry, reading, going to movies, calligraphy and loving my roommates’ seeing-eye dog. more…

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