"Sand Castle" illustration from Nancy Standlee for my "Dreams of the Turtle King" beach poem book.
The poem is SAND CASTLE and the illustration is for a stanza in the poem ...
"I walk by
a sandcastle,
the turrets
rounded by
the wind..."
There were always a variety of sand castles on the beach when I did my morning walks. Some of them were far enough from the high tide line to survive during the night and you could distinguish the turrets and moats in the sunrise. But often they would be closer to the water and in various stages of disintegration, dissolving back into simply being sand on the beach.
Occasionally, there would be a contest for sand sculptures and then you could find some amazing, large scale items- mermaids and sea turtles and other imaginative things.
Seeing the partly dissolved ones always made me a little sad that they had been abandoned to their fate. But such is the state on the beach - constant change!
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