No sun today, no need for lotion,

Waves roiling out of the southeast are of the ocean,

On a small craft today, sea sickness abounds from the motion…

Stormy seas wracks the beaches,

Freshly laid sands sucked back out to sea,

The ocean takes from man like so many leaches…

Dark clouds do a perfect day foil,

For me of the beach this weather does not spoil,

The clouds & ocean together do seem to broil,

The weather does around me make a comforting coil…

© ed – 11/1/13