Jealous Lovers

When the moon ignores lovers

at midnight hour pursues the sea

then leaves by morning light

a sea in wild tempest tossed

with foamy caps beat

upon waking shore

gulls see through diamonds

spread by rising sun

and I sit upon the sand

and write what no lover could.

A contest entry

Further Morning Quickiness...10/10L/30m by poet2angels. 475 points, ended October 31, 2007, 8 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest

By me, right now

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Gods Precious
November 12, 2007
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I can see how the moon and the stars and the shore are jealous of each other.

loved this piece
goalsv
November 1, 2007
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Very beautiful and nicely written. Congrats on the bronze.
poet2angels
October 31, 2007
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I LOVE THIS!
The ending holds so much beauty and power leaving the reader in awe...This is awesome..

Lynda
poet2angels
October 31, 2007

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prompt is:

“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
~Jacques Maritain
or
the pic above