At The Strand Beach Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after Matthew Arnold, in answer to Mike Nicol)

Flat like a mirror the sea lies tonight
with only the distant lighthouse's light
flashing round and round, giving it's warning,
and on the beach you come into my sight.

The wind ruffles your hair; you are beautiful like years ago
where we are now splashing where it is shallow
while the moon hangs silver-white in its romantic presence
and of the soft perfection of your lips and body I do know.

Once in dreams we wandered at this perfect sea,
and then I thought that it would never again be
but after years of war and then oppression,
here you are with me living through a time of tranquillity

where to each other we are true,
as if eternity and everything that there is I have found in you,
where my long sought love has become my own
and although it's night the sea and sky does remain forever blue.

[References:"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold."Lines" by Mike Nicol.]

© Gert Strydom