<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549826" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dead Starfish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">washed up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the beach<br>high tide’s brief wasting<br>a minute more, a minute less<br>the beach holds<br>sand secrets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to take or to give<br>back and forth we go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but time does not wait<br>as the last wave recedes<br>the next plunges forth<br>and wipes the slate<br>pebble and foam completely</div><div style="margin:10px 0">clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Previously published in The Oracular Tree, June 2003)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laurence+Overmire">Laurence Overmire</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=549826" data-title="Dead Starfish de Laurence Overmire" data-description="washed up on the beach high tide’s brief wasting a minute more, a minute less the beach holds sand secrets to take or to give back and forth we go but time does not wait as the last wave recedes the next plunges forth and wipes the slate pebb..."></div> </div> </div>

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