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Michael Williams Water's Edge & Decisions |
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| WATER'S EDGE Water's edge wavelets advance and recede; breaking, rushing, frothing, flooding damp sand as small boy, searching the carpet of shells exposed by the receding, rippling waves; smiles to find the revealed treasure he seeks. Sand-filled, pink shell, washed, sand-emptied and raised to small pink ear, brings to his eager mind pictures of long buried pirate treasure beneath palm trees, swaying on the island where breaks the surf he hears in his pink shell. |
| © Michael Williams - 2002 Water's Edge & Decisions have been previously published on NineMSN Poetry Workshop. |
| Other works by this author |
| DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS! As Odysseus discovered, and Shakespeare reaffirmed, 'tis one thing or another which has to be confirmed. When outrageous fortune demands a choice be made, do you veer towards the whirlpool or steer closer to the cave? The whirlpool of Charybdis will engulf the ship that sails too close, while six-headed Scylla, in her cave, can seize six of the crew at most. So sail on, on this sea of troubles, prove that you're not fools. Make your decision wisely, don't fall between two stools. |