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# Sails Of Summer
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/sails-of-summer/
- Published: 2022-02-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: the wave tops chase each other to the beach and crash, exhausted, foaming at the mouth I sit, observing, safely out of reach admiring sailboats leaving for the South
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

the wave tops chase each other to the beach  
and crash, exhausted, foaming at the mouth  
I sit, observing, safely out of reach  
admiring sailboats leaving for the South

the water's ageless color wets the sand  
erasing childish forts and fragile hearts  
the hermit crabs don't dare to make a stand  
and move their pearly homes to finer parts

the moon will soon give up its vain attempt  
to purify the spot on which I sit  
the waves break, in frustration and contempt  
their froth recedes as they admit defeat

the last sail leans to starboard and winks out  
they're gone now, till the summer makes them sprout

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**Author notes:** wc108