Poetry from One Memento to Eternity

Seabirds fishing in the shorebreak (Photo credit: Joel Abroad)

Wednesday’s Poetic Bloomings In-Form Poet Prompt urged its contributors to write a Memento poem—about a holiday, anniversary, or like event. A Memento poem consists of two 6-line stanzas, with syllables running 8,6,2,8,6,2 each with rhyme scheme of abcabc for both stanzas.

I worried this prompt for a few hours while I worked on another project and decided to write about a park along the west side of Florida where we spent a week a couple of years ago while on the road. I hope you enjoy my little memento.

Down by the Seashore

 Beaches washed with soft blue waters,

Skies screeching with sea birds;

Sunshine.

Never a comber who falters,

Even at sea’s foam curds,

Surf line.

Toes separated by warm sand

squirm, feeling Earth’s wet breast

beneath,

Wondering if ever my hand

could make a green wave-pressed

sea wreath.

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Meanwhile over at Writer’s Digest, Poetic Asides Prompt #208 wanted us to write a forever poem. I had to be a bit predictable, didn’t I? Forever connotes eternity, which is a concept of cosmic proportions.

Universal Law

Stars expand, release energies

into voids, creating new potential

for greater stars than themselves,

never moving beyond their orbits

of the Universe’s center and its well

of gravity strewn satellites.

For all of time that man relates,

the Universe has moved out,

away from itself, leaving behind

peeks at its working, its beginnings,

and its wonders to behold;

defining for us eternity.

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