My newest poem...Freedom

[CaliforniaPeggy]

The expansive shoreline opens
Its arms
Across my view
The glittering water beckons


It says
Come, travel over me
Explore me
Drink my salty depths
Swim in my floating hair
Feel my touch
Along your body
As you dive

The far-flung ocean
Speaks to me

Of freedom

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. That's lovely, Peggy...

It reminds me of one of your beautiful photos... :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear GoddessofGuinness!

Oooh...Thank you!

It was inspired yesterday as I drove down a long boulevard towards the ocean...

The expansiveness triggered me.

:hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. good poem ...especially today (yesterday)

pirates, and sailing ships and all that...ahoy, matey :toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Tuesday Afternoon!

Oh, I'd forgotten all about "Talk Like A Pirate Day!"

Ahoy back atcha, sweetie! :toast:

And thanks!

:hug:

[NanceGreggs]

5. My Dear CalPeg ...

... you make me weep - in the best way of all.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Nance...

Oh, I am so very glad I came back for one last look before going to bed...

Thank you so much...

I can never get over your compliments!

Coming from a writer of your caliber...

What can I say...

Except~~thank you.

:hug:

[UrbScotty]

7. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

Since you've taken a lot of (great!) pictures of nature, how about putting one of those in to complement a poem?

I know it's too late to edit this thread to put one in, but maybe next time! :-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear ih8thegop!

You know, that's a very good idea!

I hadn't actually thought of that...

I'll see if I can, next time...

But what shall I do if the poem's erotic? :wow: :scared:




:rofl: :rofl:

[UrbScotty]

10. I didn't say you HAD to

at least not in every poem! :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. *Whew*

Ya scared me there, for a minute!


:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Kick!

'Cause I feel like it!:P

[puerco-bellies]

12. Cool Miss CP

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Thanks, my dear puerco-bellies!

Good to see you tonight, sweetie!

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

13. Great poem, Peg!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear SeattleGirl!

Aw, thanks, sweetie!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[ThomCat]

16. Everything except drinking the salty depths is awesome.

:P

I know you meant that metaphorically, not realisticly. :)

That is very cool and visual.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. My dear ThomCat!

Yeah, it was metaphorical!

And I didn't know you read my stuff...

Thank you for letting me know, sweetie...

Glad you like it!


I'm hoping you get to participate in your festival today!

:hug:

[ThomCat]

20. I rarely comment on Poetry.

And when I do comment it's almost always only on BlueIris's threads. I don't know why that is, but it is. :shrug:

But I do read a lot of stuff that I don't comment on. I hope you don't mind that I don't comment. With all the heavy meds that I take I don't feel coherent enough anymore to comment on some kinds of abstract stuff. :(

(in other words, I don't feel like parts of my brain are working at anything near capacity anymore so I keep some thoughts to myself)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Of course I don't mind...

I'm sorry you don't feel coherent enough to comment, but it's lovely that you read my work...

Thank you for telling me, sweetie...

:hug:

[Haole Girl]

17. I hope we always think these thoughts when looking out into the ocean...

I hope the horizon is not, someday, dotted with blinking oil rigs.
Sorry to be such a downer, but this has been on my mind a lot lately.

Once again, Peggy, you've taken thoughts I've had (often) and put them in a poem!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear KC2...

I hope our future isn't dotted with multitudes of oil rigs too...

But somewhere there will always be the view that I see...

I hope.

Thanks, sweetie...

:hug:

[crim son]

22. "Swim in my floating hair"

That resonates.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Thanks...

:hug:

[crim son]

24. I'm afraid of the ocean

but when I was a girl, used to swim out in English Bay (Vancouver)when the tide was very low. We could make our way to the hulls of the ships docked, but it was a strange feeling, the seaweed winding round our ankles and touching at our faces like curious fingers. Your poem totally brings it back to me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. I had no idea!

Wow, that's a very cool story...nothing at all what I'd imagined...

Thanks for telling it to me!

I like the ocean, but as far as swimming in it? NEVER!

:hug:

[crim son]

26. Yet you knew.

:hug:

[BlueIris]

27. Nice work, Peggy. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. My dear BlueIris...

I thank you...

:hug: