Uneasy alliance

[Poeticpiers]

Uneasy alliance

The surging sea incessantly
erodes the contours of the land
and grinds the rocks down constantly
into the finest grains of sand.
The sand then form into a beach
A margin twixt the sea and land
The high tide cannot always reach
across the barrier of sand.
Thus the sea protects the land
despite their ancient enmity.
Sometimes they must work hand in hand
because they’re not completely free.
They are constrained as they must be
each must observe its boundary.

11 April 2006
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[luvleerenee]

Ah, I have missed your verse. :) Nice contrasts!

Reneé

[e-piph[lol]]

enjoyed!

[shane]

Never thought of it like that. T’was a gently flowing poem.

[gedwaylem]

beautiful,enjoyed,kind of ironic

[Poeticpiers]

Many thanks for reading and commenting, nature must maintain the balance somehow ivor

[Michael]

The titled says it all, Piers, but not as poetically as the entire poem says it. :D

The title is an aphorism about inanimate matter.
They are constrained as they must be
each must observe its boundary.
Personified or not, the unfortunate occasion is when one or the other, I would put my money on the sea, doesn’t observe its boundary. It’s almost as if the sea is saying, “I’m the rightful owner of this planet. Once I owned the whole thing!”

The relationship isn’t only an “Uneasy alliance”, it’s a fragile one as well.

Very thought provoking, Ivor.

[thoughts]

Enjoyable read, I would say you are inspired by the Islands we live in.
thank you.
Margaret

[Poeticpiers]

Thanks Michael for your comments I agree the sea does disregard its boundaries at times.But what it gains in one place it loses in another The coast line of this tiny island is forever changing. We lose villages and gain marshlands