The wide sea swells with muscular power:

surges under thundering clouds.

Waves

in chaos

rush and tower,

careless of steepness,

smash

in whirls of foam,

slam

on slabs of rock.

Until

tiring,

sighing.

Rays of sunlight

slice a shredded grey sky,

sparkling silver sequins twinkle

on her scaly skin,

and the ocean lies still.

Vast and deep is the mighty sea that roars.

Yet, at curving edges, surfers ride waves,

landing softly on sandy shores.

Sleeping under an afternoon haze,

the sea stretches out between headlands:

a salty green ocean 

beneath the sky’s hot breath.

A toddler with his mother is paddling in the shallows,

where little ripples run up the beach now the storms are gone.

The Sea by Jeanette Swan

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