Terry Finch

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Restless are the ocean waves
that battle for the land.
Their struggles are so timeless
against the grains of sand.
...

When all a summer's meadow sleeps,
their howls will fill the air
and high upon a rocky bluff,
the wolves will guard their lair.
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Submerged within this peaceful sea
where quiet death has crept.
The surface shimmered above me
from tears as Angels wept.
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I heard the howling of the wind
across the drifted snow.
It's icy chill and loneliness
had nowhere else to go.
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Hungry, are the wolves that stalk
a winter's frozen lake.
Howling such unearthly sounds,
and keeping us awake.
...

I walked along a lonely track,
my eye upon the end.
A cold wind blowing at my back,
hard times my only friend.
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In a frosty morning's solitude,
sunlight's piercing Autumn leaves.
A peaceful silent interlude
in an endless sea of trees.
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8.

We live our lives
from day to day,
tide to moonlit tide.
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9.

You hear it in the desert sands
and feel it in the air.
It's crossing over all the lands
from a dark and secret lair.
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I seek solace in this dark place every morn
and wake with the coming night.
One day I will awaken from my slumber
to find there is no dawn
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The clouds rolled on like ocean waves
In endless shades of gray
to dark and distant hills they spread
the ragged edge of day.
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There was a place
so long ago
where Nature cried
in morning's glow.
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The eyes of midnight
are not blue
but deep and dark and dead.
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What plummets down a rocky gorge
will use the path it helped to forge
and as the roaring stream has grown
it washes smooth the flat creek stone
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Terry Finch Biography

A poet and a government worker. Living with family in the Fingerlakes region of upstate NY.)

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Heart Sounds

Restless are the ocean waves
that battle for the land.
Their struggles are so timeless
against the grains of sand.

Swells rising and retreating,
climbing every shore.
Hold a conch shell to your ear
and hear the ocean roar.

Life is like the waves at sea,
gentle in its motion.
A symphony of heartbeats,
lessons in devotion.

Now and then a storm is born,
twenty-five foot waves.
Testing us in the journey,
life sometimes misbehaves.

With a rhythm so hypnotic
and soothing in its guise;
footprints fall into the sea
and fade before your eyes.

Then you hear the waves at night
crashing one by one,
their pounding is so steady,
a skirmish never done.

Looking back, your tracks are gone;
sand has filled them in.
Ocean waves will hide the signs
that you have ever been.

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