My Newest Poem for Thursday August 17, 2023 A Rolling Wave Jill

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Aug 10, 2023, 8:41:17 PM8/10/23

to Rennaissance writing Group, Robert L. Smith, Kaolin Fire, Karen Arenson, Kim Knighton, Stephen Frantz

I just wrote this in the last hour. So it is not polished.

Bob Stanley's class just ended at 4:15 pm and I wrote this in the last 1 1/2 hours.

And I'm sending it off for comments and suggestions! I know I was influenced both by Sobha's poem

in her Himalayan adventure and by the Spanish poems we just read today. Such turbulent emotions! Jill

This is for our Thursday discussion, August 17, 2023. Jill

A Rolling Wave

crashes furiously
against the boulder

suddenly spraying up and out
a water dragon launching into flight

the exploding beauty of a nova
brightening into life

all ephemeral
like your love

a powerful twisting turbulence
experienced painfully

spun into a safe and treasured memory
after the pain recedes

(I won't mention I nearly died)