The poem is POSSIBILITIES...

"Possibilities" illustration from Nancy Standlee for my "Dreams of the Turtle King" beach poem book.

The poem is POSSIBILITIES and the illustration is for a stanza in the poem ...

"Walking along
the beach,
the waves crash..."

This poem will be in the "Thoughts I Found on the Beach" section of the book which has poems that deal with more contemplative aspects of my walks.

It is very easy to become contemplative when walking under a big sky by the ocean, feeling the rhythm of the waves and experiencing the transiency of it all. Everything changes at the beach: the number of clouds, the amount of sunlight, the presence and strength of the wind, the types of waves, the color of the water,...

Two things that was generally true were that the beach was certainly less crowded and also less noisy at sunrise!