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Alone by the Sea

June 13, 2022 ~ wordancerblog ~ 7 Comments

It’s June. I live in New Jersey. It’s time to “go down the shore,” as we Garden State residents say. It’s beach time!

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7 responses to “Alone by the Sea”

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    Lakshmi Bhat
    June 14, 2022

    The sea is fascinating in all its different moods. We live not far from the Arabian sea. In April our daughter and grandchildren had come for a vacation. There is one beach which is popular but crowded. So we searched a quiet beach and they enjoyed themselves 🙂

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    Greg&Linda
    June 14, 2022

    Summers go so quickly, whether they are full of commitments or not. I appreciated your description of your quiet place to reflect. I have had various places over the years, but none I am able to return to each year. Thank you for sharing.

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    Tina L
    June 14, 2022

    Love this so much! I just spent a day in Asbury and seeing Bruce’s face everywhere made me so happy. I attended a concert at the Stone Pony and the 20-something singer sang her own set but included one of my favorite Bruce songs–Stolen Car. Mingled with the humid June air and the smell of hot dogs and pizza, it felt so familiar and GOOD. I love how you mentioned not just the beach, but the music (Sinatra). It ties us all together into a communal blanket of common experience and it is a thread from “then” to “now.” I will definitely take more journeys to the beach this summer season. Maybe with you!

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    Book Dragon
    June 15, 2022

    What a fabulous poem to honour the sea, and your relationship to it.
    May you have many summer filled days ahead with the Atlantic sea.

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    Fran Haley
    June 16, 2022

    I am with you and May on valuing places you love and coming back to them. I also celebrate having my summer free – it is a time to decompress, enjoy, and just be, like I cannot often do in the throes of the school year. I, too, love the beach – grew up on the coast and the ocean always calls. Few places offer such rejuvenation. It does speak of continuity and the infinite, “something larger than myself,” which is also a definition or sense of the word ‘awe.’ Your lovely poem is like a scrapbook – I can see every image so clearly and there’s such peace and comfort in it.

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    Julie
    June 18, 2022

    I didn’t grow up by the ocean, but water is always a happy, safe place for me. I can’t get enough. I need to check out that Katherine May memoir!

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    Terje
    June 20, 2022

    I can relate to the love of sea. Can’t imagine my life without it. Your poem is beautiful

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