dust between my fingers flitters away in breeze i barely register
sand between my toes tenders memories of childhood joy
garden earth between my palms enriches past and future
for garden dirt that supplied our table promises to feed our family’s souls
glitter, glisten, ripple, dance
sparkle with reflected sunlight
painfully bright sequins
flash the passion of the coastal waters
in multiple competing tangos
as each breath of wind salsas
to its own drummer
dipping and swirling partner waves
in frantic and yet enticing embrace
a watercolor storm sky
of billowing clouds of grays
agonized purple and yellow
tortured by erupting orange
from angry, mottled blues
edging toward precipitating
their slivers of ice and shafts
of slashing rain when placating
winds shift their proximity
allowing sunshine to mediate
the argument to tete-a tetes of spring
funny what people choose to admire
physical beauty that requires
face lifts and tummy tucks
perfume and make-up
to try to sustain
or money which is which is a paper
promise easily burned or stolen
or conned or lost to greed or failure
to mend unseen holes in pockets
when, all around us
is a wealth of beauty maintained
by mother nature and geologic time
flora and fauna richly varied, colorful
beyond our far-flung imagination
waves gliding or pounding
into shores smoothed or carved
or gouged into wondrous cliffs
or dunes or caves resounding
with joy abundantly shared if
we would only be still and listen, look
touch, taste, smell and welcome
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giddy with whitecaps
wind-driven frenzied surface
hints of life below
tiny jagged rock
seldom naked above the surf
sporadically catches the edge
of a pounding wave
heaving spray as a glistening
ten-foot, momentary tower
            Lincoln City, Oregon
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some skies, clouds swirled, puffed
layered, gray, blue-purple need
my watercolors
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firs bend whispering
telling one another of
memories we shared
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winter sea gray, not
with malice but upheaval
renewing for spring
full winter moon entangled
in yellowish, green-gray, eerie clouds
fighting with brilliance to be free
of the fear those hoverers over earth
engender in mere mortals looking up
MJ blathers