In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river ran Through caverns measurless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers was girdled round, And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And there […]
We are so close to the beach And because we live so close To the beach It take us only ten minutes to Walk to the beach by Aldo Kraas
Peering over the top of the cereal box – some generic headland ocean: 70s eyeshadow gradation bleached beach, fingernail curve (manicured) board-wax chests sandcastle: silicon animorphised. A print on my wall or a window, you ask? Baudrillard’s beach if either the print on my retina has been cast. by Literary Minded
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast, the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where […]
The cliff sprang from the sea at end of Hostel Beach, if the tide was out you’d reach a tiny bay beyond the cape without wet feet, an easy stroll but too effete for blood as hot as ours. We watched it at full flood; a risky place to contemplate the games we planned, we […]
When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten, I’ll buy a boat and sail away upon a summer sea; And in a little lonely isle that’s far and far from men, In peace and praise I’ll spend the days the Gods allow to me. For I am weary of a strife […]
Wind whines and whines the shingle, The crazy pierstakes groan; A senile sea numbers each single Slimesilvered stone. From whining wind and colder Grey sea I wrap him warm And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder And boyish arm. Around us fear, descending Darkness of fear above And in my heart how deep unending Ache of […]
Down to the beach Down to the beach On a sunny day we go Beach bags packed with sun screen lotions Hands rubbing people’s backs in slow motion Glistening oily bodies radiating with sensation Down to the beach Down to the beach Where a chilly sea breeze blows Let’s have some fun In the red-hot […]
