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From: valerie@net1.UCSD.EDU (Valerie Polichar)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Frosty sort of poem...
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Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 13:36:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 13:36:37 1986
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I think I was reading too much Robert Frost on the day I wrote this
(~1 year ago)!  Comments, as always, are fiercely solicited :)


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     I Should Like


     I should like to have this sea to walk in when I'm old:
     pale and sunset-stained,
     seaweed draped like shawls around the sand.
     A gull stands out in bold relief against the foamy sky;
     children scream; sandpipers fail to fly.

     I'd like to leave my pack on the rugged seam of cliff
     and settle feet into the soothing tide.
     I've kept my shoes on much too many years;
     the beach wouldn't seem so long if I could wade its length,
     scaring little birds with my steps, and not so wide.

     Fifty years from now the tide will still come in;
     the gulls still skreek, the children fist their shells in sweaty hands;
     the lovers still build castles in the dying light;
     and I will still be walking on the sand.

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Valerie Polichar     sdcsvax!net1!valerie     net1!valerie@SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU

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