Poetry Lovers Society Forum Evening by the Sea

Abraham Patrick

Evening by the Sea 2 Years Ago The evening sun’s warm sting   conspired with the baking breeze  to make my tryst with the sea s squirmy. I scurried below a feeble shade  on the seaside lawn to sojourn.    Two tiny sparrows like tiny kangaroos,  never learning to walk, hopped on both legs  looking for crumbs or miniature prey.  Two mynas walked upright, heads raised  seeking out fodder from a height  snatching innumerable invisible game  from the grass, as though mad from the heat.  A crow swooped in looking for prey  probing with a quizzical slanting head  harassed by the mynas in vain.    Below me and the green,  the whitish brown grainy beach  blazed, trod on by young and old  in pairs or alone. Families frolicked  where the shy waves broke softly,  running up the shore in glee.  Further away, heads bobbed  in the dense wave-studded sea -  a grey blue static expanse melting  again and again at the shore  merging with the blue further away.  The sun denied a glorious descent   blurred into the orange white haze.    The sea breathed a meditative stillness  concealing an enigmatic deceptive calm.