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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 8 years ago

A Stormy Day in St. Augustine C/C?

The fog steamrolled in

and blanketed the beach

in minutes,meshing all horizons

into an abysmal grey.

Winds kicked waves

and circled in menacing waterspouts-

a haphazard race to nowhere.

Suddenly the rain's sharp teeth

bit our sunburned backs

and freckled the white powder sand

as we ran for cover.

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I love your picturesque and ephemeral gift, thank you for the view of a far away place, for the things that the history books don't show are what the poet knows.

  • 8 years ago

    I also enjoyed the imagery in this poem Tina, particularly the bit about the rain freckling the white powder sand. A change in the weather which sounded menacing.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Riding out a storm on the beach can be fun.

    Oh...you mentioned waterspouts, yep time to run!

    A great personification of the rain.

    Nice work.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Love the visual of this. The rain's teeth biting and freckled sand were very nice lines!

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  • 8 years ago

    Clearest and most unique image, for me:

    freckled the white powder sand

    A very nice word painting. I can see and feel and even smell the day.

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    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I was there, I felt it, saw it.

    Perfect timing to read this poem,

    my daughter lives in St. Augustine and she just took her firstborn off to college in Georgia today.

    Maybe that rain was her tears.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Animated, well written with a

    most menacing metaphor.

    An exciting poem.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Gems

    I loved it. Branching out are ya? You have a gift that needs

    to be shared, and expanded as you have just shown us.

    thank you

  • 8 years ago

    I thought you were in Duluth?

    Cool poem.

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