Seashore Solitaire
* w. Glenda Valle
Scarlet tongues of sunset flames
Ignite the distant sky
Ocean spreads across the west
As I lie on powdered sand
Phallic shadows cast by rocks
Surround my supine form
Cat-like then I roll and stretch
Quartz sand flecks sparkle on skin.
Gazing toward illimitable expanse
Of undulating sea, above which then
A pillar shaped purple cloud
Starts
shifting before my eyes.
The nascence of an orchid bloom
On vortex comes to bloom
Ascending upward toward the sky
Uninhibited there I drift.
I’m one within the cloud
And one with the sky and sea
A salty cooling cleansing breeze
Renders my spirit free
Vanishing now the blossomed cloud
On reddened sky and sea
I seem to float into my own
As naturally
as can be.
Sounds subside and then I drift
Through forests filled with light
Tis there upon a dreamscape field
I hear a tinkling stream nearby.
Walking through blue bell fields
Accompanied by mountain breeze
I’m gently guided to the source
And arrive at the
And there reflected are my eyes
Emerging then, I come awake
And gaze on evening star
Scintillating its pulsing shine
On the world I’d left behind.