Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire

This week’s poem is by Duane Pierson of Portland. His most recent book is “Melange” by Integratis Publishing.

 

Reverie by Maine’s Rocky Coast

By Duane Pierson

 

on pondering what

has been long pondered

the significance

of redoing the obvious

seeking profundity where

countless predecessors

did the unceasing same

watching tired waves

crash on ancient rocks

 

reflected golden sun

fractures away on

the undulating surface

a seabird effortlessly glides

through splashed foam

as if to signal

a trenchant answer

to something not a question

 

transcendence is found

in being present

where contemplation

is blithely generated

to finally end

an emptied shell

dropped back

by a screaming gull

into a persistent sea

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