Soundings Of The Sea

Maybe if I stretch

until my fingers

touch the sky.

   

    

 

 

              

Maybe if I let my toes

take little soundings

of the sea.

 

   

    

       

 

   

     

   

Maybe if I search

the pulse beneath the sand. 

 

            

          

   

  

Maybe I can be in touch

with it all.

Have yourself a Happy 4th of July! 

Fourth Of July

I Love America.

 We light fireworks, revel in red, white & blue.

Picnics & people come together to celebrate our nation's & our family's independence.

We drag tables & chairs out to the lawn, platters of food, baskets of bread, cookies & cupcakes, pitchers of lemonade & lots of ice.

We join in patriotic song, march in parades and after sunset we watch America's birthday candles light up the sky.

Marshmallows for roasting, lanterns for hunting bugs & lost shoes.

Soon there will be journeys back & forth to the house or the car with arms full of left-over's & sleeping children.

Like I said, I love America.

Happy Independence Day to you all.

Patriot Sailor photos by Mary Randolph Carter