Ocean View
I looked from the cliff,
down the foaming waves,
the ominous clouds--
in slow and threatening pace.
The beach-- abandoned, wet, dreary,
no seagulls in sight, nor sandpipers busy,
just winds, unleashed
and fiercely moaning,
as if nature was angry and foreboding.
Then, suddenly, wings--
wide and circling--
they moved lower
where the waters were crushing.
A hawk, alone, bold and majestic
was making his rounds-- slowly descending--
he was flying above the mighty ocean,
mightier still, in his freedom and motion.
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Submitted by donka_k on April 17, 2018
Modified on April 27, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8 |
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