<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399279" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Skimmers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a boy he used to toss <br>flat rocks on the water<br>of the farm dam or nearby lake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching them skim<br>over the surface<br>only touching here and there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there was some magic<br>in the leaping <br>almost right across the water surface.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wind whirls up tiny whirlwinds<br>running out before him on the beach, <br>a lonely boy is tossing shells into the air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which are blown back in a curling flight, <br>sand hits legs, arms and the body<br>stinging like sandpaper, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the distance skimmers are eating from shells<br>near to green-blue hued pools, <br>with some flying low over the sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he flings his thoughts back to many years, <br>thinking again and again<br>about a world that has changed with time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how he changed from an innocent believing child<br>to the mature successful man<br>but his life is empty and he is here to find something.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: Skimmers by Ted Walker.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399279" data-title="Skimmers de Gert Strydom" data-description="As a boy he used to toss flat rocks on the water of the farm dam or nearby lake watching them skim over the surface only touching here and there and there was some magic in the leaping almost right across the water surface. The wind whirls up..."></div> </div> </div>

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