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Coming Home to Sea Isle…
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Driving under the Parkway overpass,

I have to blow my horn, its something we just did,

Smelling the marsh grass & mud at low tide,

Reminds me of coming home after, with dad & mom, a ride…

 

Seeing that long stretch of bay front homes,

Extending the length of the island,

Water tower welcoming to the left,

Boat docks to the right,

A feeling over me that’s tight…

 

From on top of the bridge,

I can see my mom ocean,

Angry she is today, whitecaps like teeth,

Down 41st to Pleasure & a right,

Three short blocks and a left,

Home always looked welcoming,

The dark clouds above, my refuge beneath…

© ed ~ 11/04/08


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 Reviews of "Coming Home to Sea Isle…"
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
really enjoyed the sentiment and substance of this poem, Ed ...

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
I like this

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
It is funny how comforting home is even when it is no longer our legal address it remains in our hearts our sanctuary.

Fee

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
There's nothing like that feeling. I remember driving into the SF Bay area in the glow of the setting sun over Alcatraz three years after leaving California for good three years before. I only lived there three years, but it till seems like home.. Except when I Escape to Wisconsin, again.

Ron

Reviewed by Roger Ochs
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
"Home is the hunter
Home from the hill
And the sailor home from the sea"

Thank you for letting me share your journey.

Reviewed on November 4, 2008
ED - WELL DONE, LAD - WELL DONE!

Ocean City Maryland was never my home, but your description of the approach matches very well. I was about 17 when I first experienced the Ocean - such Power, such Magnificence, such Lovely HOOTERS in BIKINIS .... MY GAWD! I was in HEAVEN!

TK.

Reviewed on November 4, 2008
Beautiful write of Home, Ed, well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
I knew that Mom's iron whacks would make remember the good old days.

Edvard the Elder

PS: don't listen to the snide remarks of PeeWee, he's a ninny.


Reviewed by Walt Hardester
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
You old sentimentalist.

~W~

Reviewed by Bonnie May
Reviewed on November 4, 2008
Beautiful and touching, your mother ocean is never far from you my friend. Love, Bonnie


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