Sunrise Tide Pool
by RC DeWinter
Title
Sunrise Tide Pool
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography
Description
Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
In Saecula Saeculorum
I live in a house where the idiocy of the world
is broadcast throughout the day into the evening
for the entertainment of a woman who cannot
hear a thing at normal volume, who counts
the Lorna Doones when they are eaten.
At first I wondered why no one complained
about the racket from the open summer windows -
for though the air is suffocating, thick with unshed rain,
the air conditioner sits idle - she is never hot;
then I remember this is a neighborhood
of ancient women, past all but the killing of the clock.
There is no peace, no sanctity of thought;
the lives of plastic people never living anywhere
but in hack writers' minds take precedence
over the urgent truth of what affects us all.
I sit outside no matter what the hour -
in morning light, in bug-infested dusk.
The deepest night is contemplation's only refuge;
by then my mind, incapable of rest, whirls,
spinning like a planet thrown from orbit.
At sunrise, heavy-lidded, I am desperate,
a Lazarus needing the resurrective touch of Jesus;
I rise and dress in dawn's pale sullen light.
The ocean calls. I answer it by walking
the half-mile to its shore, and, standing
in the blessed quiet there,
re-arm to combat coming day's despair.
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter
The beauty of a spring tide pool at sunrise at Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Australia.
This painting has been FEATURED in
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Thanks to the group hosts for their encouragement and support.
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Comments (6)
Nancy Kane Chapman
Incredibly beautiful image....coupled with a journey into your mind and thoughts....all brilliant and edgy. Surely a novel.....surely.
RC DeWinter replied:
It would be autobiography, Nancy, and as I always say, "I'm writing my autobiography one poem at a time." Thank you.