Beach Painting

    Walking along near the rolling high tide,
    casting my thoughts, like nets through the swells
    floating a glance at the buoys that bob
    under the echoing chime of sea bells.

    Distant, the island now rising from sleep,
    waits in a cloudy haze blended with sky;
    Softly the gulls and the boats on the waves,
    settle like shells where the sandy mounds lie.

    Catching a gust with my skirt in the wind,
    twisting a smile as I pull up my hair;
    Morning, my painting in pastels of blue,
    depicts on a memory of summer’s sweet air.