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# Permanent Vacation
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/permanent-vacation/
- Published: 2023-11-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: A beach vacation: labor to pretend that we are meant to lead a life of leisure, to sift with carefree fingers through the sand, no, not in search of hidden prize or treasure, but for a sense of timelessness. To us the...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A beach vacation: labor to pretend  
that we are meant to lead a life of leisure,  
to sift with carefree fingers through the sand,  
no, not in search of hidden prize or treasure,  
but for a sense of timelessness. To us  
the hourglass, a metaphor for being.  
Where better then to discourse, to discuss,  
or hide, for some, from time itself, all-seeing,  
than in the flowing dunes that wrap the shore  
in infinite and precious, precious seconds.  
Dare waste a whole week's worth, and ask for more,  
reality be damned, the siren beckons,  
out there where the horizon draws a line.  
Come, join with me, she sings. The water's fine.