The Tides of March

 "Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of  which the sea would not be part...." -Hermann Broch

 TWILIGHT at SEA by Amelia B.Welby (1819-1852)  Known as a Woman of the Century. She became a notable poet in her own right.

 The twilight hours......

 like birds, flew by,

 As lightly and as free,

 Ten thousand stars were in the sky,

 Ten thousand on the sea......

 For every wave,

 with dimpled face,

 That leaped  upon the air, had caught a star in its embrace

 And held it trembling there.......

 (Note:  all pics are from Discovery Passage, Campbell River, B.C.,first week of March 2018. And the mountains of Mt. Washington....)

 "The sea never tells what it means to do. There is everything in this abyss, even chicanery.

 One might almost say that the sea had designs; it advances and retreats, it proposes and retracts.

 It prepares a squall and then gives up its plan, it promises destruction and does not keep its word..."-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) (Greatest French writer of the time)

Poems selected from "1000 Beautiful Things" ( my fav poetry book of all time) 1942