<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shells</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reaching down arm-deep into bright water <br>I gathered on white sand under waves <br>Shells, drifted up on beaches where I alone <br>Inhabit a finite world of years and days. <br>I reached my arm down a myriad years <br>To gather treasure from the yester-milliennial sea-floor, <br>Held in my fingers forms shaped on the day of creation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Building their beauty in three dimensions <br>Over which the world recedes away from us, <br>And in the fourth, that takes away ourselves <br>From moment to moment and from year to year <br>From first to last they remain in their continuous present. <br>The helix revolves like a timeless thought, <br>Instantaneous from apex to rim <br>Like a dance whose figure is limpet or murex, <br>cowrie or golden winkle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sleep on the ocean floor like humming-tops <br>Whose music is the mother-of-pearl octave of the rainbow, <br>Harmonious shells that whisper forever in our ears, <br>The world that you inhabit has not yet been created.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kathleen+Jessie+Raine">Kathleen Jessie Raine</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=428988" data-title="Shells de Kathleen Jessie Raine" data-description="Reaching down arm-deep into bright water I gathered on white sand under waves Shells, drifted up on beaches where I alone Inhabit a finite world of years and days. I reached my arm down a myriad years To gather treasure from the yester-millie..."></div> </div> </div>

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