The ocean's waves wash up upon the shore. <br />Children are playing and building sandcastles. <br />They are different from the castles in the sky. <br />A fisherman catches an oyster. <br />How fortunate for him <br />That it contains a pearl. <br />He marvels at its gleam. <br />A starfish wriggles its body along the sand. <br />I find a big shell at the water's edge. <br />I put it to my ear. <br />It sounds like the ocean beckonging me. <br />Daring me to plunge into it. <br />Desiring my presence in its waters.<br /><br />Jeff Fleischer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ocean-7/
