#603 - and dance like a wave of the sea

 

27.viii.21

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and dance like a wave of the sea

poem titled with a line from Yeats

for Dora Arampatzi and friends

 

‘we grew up in summer together’

friends through generations

 

come to explore

forest and island

stony trails, sand shores

 

and take to the blue

so deep, so round

swim till nearly dissolve  

 

we grew up in summer together

had to share a towel

were sundried, mainly

 

golden!

and call out to them now

‘be careful with that sea’

 

were salted like the kalamari

lemon squeeze, delicious

come dancing

 

like a tune

to its strings we were

 

a beard and trident ruled the waves

and sometimes raging still

 

what was in the radio then

fills the heart till now

 

and hearts are full for each other

it doesn’t matter how far

 

kids and houses

spouses, strain, work, worry

all vanish on the beach

 

school’s ending

now here’s freedom

visits so often you know

 

soon hot again

stood lovely in the rain

now sun

and no towel needed

 

heavy the vines with time

fruit bends the branches

 

there may have been other seasons

but we grew up in summer together

 

and night so starred with passion

have you noticed how

in our conversation

same stars

no years have passed at all?

 

ah but I see your glass going down

friends, then let’s have a drink