Quotes

A PASSING THOUGHT

It was just a passing thought, like a wave….
If you had seen me, you’d have 
seen the smile roll across my face and break over my eyes. 

The ocean longs to cover the shore, to ride up on her, often with tender susurrations and sunsets. 

The sweet, sandy beach luxuriates in this wooing, and arranges her little treasures
to make the ripples of her own reply. 

The winter storms, the occasional squall...
even then, the crashing and pounding is mutual, always 
punctuated by gentle lapping. 

Each grants the other comfort,
offering up what they have,
all the waves and sandbars, sea caves, and tide pools, the things everyone else just sees as the coastline....

These little ordinary, everyday, nothing new here things,
are the gifts that the lovers treasure 
and hold most dear. 



Jonathan Pazer

South Caspar CA - 08/04/19 3:45am - Show with Fort Bragg View North from the stand of trees by the ocean at MacKerricher State Park, South Coastal Trail Access Parking area.

See and purchase my photography and poetry in person at the Mendocino Photographers Gallery, http://www.mcppg.com or by emailing me using the contact page.

Image and poem – Copyright Jonathan Pazer © 2020 All Rights Reserved.

AN IMPERFECT MIRROR

In the glow of the afternoon's light
When all eyes look to the west 
To the colors of day's end,
I seek the indirect candor and solemnity of reflection.

The long tide has swept far down the beach.
On the shore’s flat and flooded expanse
Scoured smooth by the gentlest waves,
A fading film of sea water struggles to hold 
The sky's dying light, as it seeps into the sand.

A most imperfect mirror, pocked by 
An ocean's detritus: shells, pebbles, bits of trash.
Yet it casts back an elemental vision 
Dodging out the details, and burning in the 
Grandeur of sun, sky and cliffs, 
All painted onto the crushed stone of mountains, 
and the ground-up mollusks that preceded us 
To this beach by an eternity.

Jonathan Pazer
May 10, 2019

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On plane to England
For my newest picture titled, "An Imperfect Mirror"
An image of Caspar Beach reflected in the sand, with a reverse and overlaid image of the same picture above it.

Copyright Jonathan Pazer ©2020 All Rights Reserved.

See and purchase my photography in person at the Mendocino Photographers Gallery, www.mcppg.com or by emailing me using the contact page.