A poem about searching for sea glass and celebrating a love that lasts.
Gleanings
By • Filed Under: Beauty, Earth as Metaphor, Love Poem, New Jersey, Poems, Sea
24 • Come, night, come Romeo…
from Romeo and Juliet, Scene III, Act II Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back. Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night, Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him […]
19 • Hawksbill Crag
Hawksbill Crag By gravel road we rise four miles into Ozark bluff. Our truck hugs the slant of timber line thin as a pencil streak. At Hawksbill Crag, we tramp thousands of feet above shaggy pine and the thumb of Jehovah. I clutch a walking stick, while you slide to the edge of the bluff […]
6 • Aubade
“I still want you / though it hasn’t rained in forever,” says this aubade poem, which also features a glimpse of the sea.
