By The Sea Side Poem by Valsa George

By The Sea Side

Rating: 4.8


Staying by the sea, now at sunset
With the light slowly fading into greyness
And the waters lying quiet
A peace fills me as never before
Dismal fears barred entry into the soul
And mind freed of all disquietude.
Through the soft whisper of waves
A low sweet melody finds its way.
Listening to the gentle sibilance of the sea,
A new insight suddenly dawns on me
None but we are to blame
For all our angry bickerings.
With all swirls and whirls underneath
Is an abstruse calm in the deep
In this continuum of flux
Is a permanence - abiding and perpetual.

Staying by the sea at sunset
With its still waters glimmering in twilight
And the stray clouds straggling in the sky,
My soul undulates with the slow rhythm of waves
And in me breaks a light, luminous and clear
A glimpse of a radiance - ethereal!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
R.k Das 19 June 2012

lovely poem as usual. [i hate one-liner comments ] thanx

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 19 June 2012

a beautiful poem on sunset and self realization! well written!

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Valerie Dohren 20 June 2012

Beautiful poem, very descriptive and well written.

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Neela Nath Das 21 June 2012

I think, In this continuum of flux/ Is a permanence - abiding and perpetual- are the key lines of this poem..Awesome..

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Hazel Durham 11 May 2019

Wow! ! OUTSTANDING WRITE......The lines are breathtakingly beautiful Valsa and this poem is going on my favourite list!

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Glen Kappy 25 August 2017

valsa, your description makes it easy for me to imagine myself into the scene and into your feeling. i particularly like gentle sibilance of the sea. glen

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Souren Mondal 27 January 2016

If I twist Andrew Marvel a bit, and may he forgive me for it, I can say that - 'The Sea is a wonderful and place of peace But none, I think, thereby long calmness face' We, as human beings, are nowadays continually forgetting what it was to feel the beauty of Nature.. Maybe because we have destroyed too much of it or maybe it is because our NATURE nowadays is nothing but natural. The rush of our 'modern' lives have made us the 'hollow man' that Eliot talked about, yet very different from his views.. Maybe we have all become a breed between Eliot's Hollow Man and the protagonist of Jibananada Das's 'At Bochor Ager Ek Din' (a poem about the suicide of a man, who had a wife, children, and everything still killed himself for unknown reasons) .. Even our hollowness is impure! This poem, with it's 'radiance', and as many below me have mentioned 'sublimity' (absolutely à la Longinus) makes us pause and look at our lives.. What are we doing? ? We are running after things that has no real values at all.. It's absolutely barren.. But we are in denial.. We deny that we are now incapable of experience the 'radiance' of the 'ethereal'.. Maybe, we can all, either 'stop here, or gently pass' - but whatever our choice be, we will be touched, and at least faintly illuminated by the scent of the seashore; the gentle, mild touches of the words will ring in our ears like music long after it will be heard no more... Another, wonderful, Romantic, spiritually excellent poem Valsa ma'am.. It was an experience to read this. Thank you very much.

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Valsa George 27 January 2016

Thank you Souren! Once again I feel awed!

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Loke Kok Yee 18 September 2015

You have just taken me to the seaside, and that by just reading your lovely poem. Thanks for sharing-a 10+

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Akhtar Jawad 30 April 2015

Staying by the sea at sunset With its still waters glimmering in twilight And the stray clouds straggling in the sky, My soul undulates with the slow rhythm of waves And in me breaks a light, luminous and clear A glimpse of a radiance - ethereal! ..............beautiful

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