edge of something

The photographer is Bob Gates.

Oceans

I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing. 
        And nothing happens!
Nothing...Silence...Waves... 

      --Nothing happens? 
Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?

~Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958)

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there is little to say about restless waves, 
or restless feet, that can be stilled and soothed 
by the feel of water lapping over one's toes

at ocean's edge all the fever and tension of life and living leeches out, 
like salt into the sand, 
and there is nothing so calming as being at the edge of the sea 
where nothing is ever, 
ever still or silent

i would be the sea
if only
it would not be 
forever

endless

for it must be lonely
to be immortal

~mine 2007/07