Contemplation of the Sea

Guest Author

Cindy Rinne - Author and Poet

Contemplation of the Sea

SONG CYCLE - A sequence of songs, perhaps on a single theme, or with texts by one poet, or having continuos narrative

Contemplation of the Sea

Let us look for secret things

somewhere in the world,

on the blue shore of silence – Neruda

I recline in solitude

on roaring rocks

like a beached whale.

My first-born inside me

responds to the warm

musical notes of surging waves,

returns like a Silkie.

I captured sand dollars

in the Gulf of Mexico

with curled toes

felt rough mouths

a story of five white doves inside,

cracked open.

Flying fish leapt beside

chugging boat Bahamas shore.

Dolphins formed arches.

My weathered feet

touched the tidewash,

erased my presence.

Starfish of autumn colors

stranded on elder stones

long after the foam

receded. My hidden sanctuary

near the Maui coast.

Breathed through a tube,

absorbed moray eels.

My child connects to God through salt.

Cindy Rinne

Cindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia, A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, The Halfpenny Marvel, and Phantom Seed. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks. www.fiberverse.com.