The Sandcastle Competition
Every year, they rise as temporary sculptures:
castles built on sand
Scenes from movies, fairy tales, famous faces,
and the seven wonders of the world.
Every year, the earnest and dedicated,
denying the inevitable – as we all must –
and with magic soup to hold the sand
Create to last a thousand years:
a man’s lifetime, a wing-flap’s span.
The waves hunch in, the crowds dissolve
the sand – in all its genius – remains.
x
29 comments:
Oh, wow, lovely Magpie of the impossible and the tenuous. (The word verification prompt for this comment is: inessiv, which seems like a nice mix of ineffable + impressive + sand blowing letters apart.)
Lovely poem. Great thinking behind it. Congratulations.
Very profound..what remains..the original clay?? Brilliant
Very thoughtful extended metaphor making an interesting poem.
Perhaps we should all create to last one thousand years...so the sand might remember us. Beautiful poem.
Scenes from movies, fairy tales, famous faces,
and the seven wonders of the world.
awesome imagery in those lines, well done.
Gorgeous. Yes, the sand will remain, and a thousand year's truly is a mere wing-flap's span. Wonderful poem.Thank you.
I saw the sand as playing an important role in Tess' photo too ... beautifully conceived, and written.
beautiful and unexpected, and lovely line -magic soup to hold the sand
the sand remains...nice...a unique play on the prompt...and i like it much...some really nice phrasing...
Good poem and extraordinary image, too.
Many references here and beautifully knitted together. I like 'The waves hunch in' - just perfect, because they do.
Nice take here and oh, do I like these words:
"the sand – in all its genius – remains."
"Castles built on sand" -- as so many are...
So beautiful.
this is gorgeous!
Beautiful...there is a genius in the sand...
beautiful : and with magic soup to hold the sand
loved this line
I do love sand...nice imagery here and great take on the prompt :)
Good stuff. One of nit very many that made use of the sand.
It is beautiful, sand castles can be creatively done. Sadly it is not meant to last like Mount Rushmore. That makes it more challenging though! Good write!
Hank
a lovely shifty sandscape
great poem
Dear Isabel: Yes, it doesn't matter what we do to the sand it's "genius" remains much more powerful than anything we could ever attempt to do to it. (I am just noticing how perfect this pic and poem with the sand motif; why didnt i see sand..i need glasses!):)
Beautiful expressions of sand and ..lifetime, a wing-flap's span is great!!
brilliant poem
brilliant poem
Beautiful! I especially love the last line. It captures the wisdom and essential truth of nature and time.
Brilliant stuff!
Anna :o]
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