<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571186" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sarasota Florida – A Place in the Sun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every year they come, <br>Like clockwork.<br>Old and weathered, <br>Weary and cantankerous, <br>Following the sun<br>That is setting on their lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They seek the glitzy, <br>The every green, the warmth, <br>Casting off their cares<br>For their time in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe, just maybe<br>Some will see the town<br>Buried there<br>Underneath all the new<br>Impersonal, hurried, <br>Cold – yes cold, <br>Lifeless town in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in an eyes blink<br>One sees another, Sarasota<br>Shell roads, deep sand, <br>Scrub palmetto, mosquito, flies and <br>Crackers making do<br>With their place in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sarasota, once a family town<br>Where children wandered barefoot<br>On the pristine white sand, <br>Kicking a shell aside, <br>Enjoying their home in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spire of the Baptist Church<br>Rising above it all there on Main<br>Beckoning all to come inside<br>(But now submerged amongst<br>The tide of scrapers<br>Shielding it from the sun.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fishing village where<br>One could never want for<br>Fresh fish, shrimp, oysters, <br>'There for the Taking*, '<br>Cast and you shall find<br>What awaits you in your<br>Place in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet Sarasota is the place to be<br>Where one can be free, <br>Free from the rush of life, <br>If only one takes the time<br>To Enjoy, a place in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In Memory of Martha Louise Moore, born and raised in her place in the Sun.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*****<br>'There for the Taking', James E. Moore. A book describing his many years harvesting shells from the Gulf of Mexico for sale in his shop in Palmetto, Florida.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">s</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidi+J.+Mahtrow">Sidi J. Mahtrow</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=571186" data-title="Sarasota Florida – A Place in the Sun de Sidi J. Mahtrow" data-description="Every year they come, Like clockwork. Old and weathered, Weary and cantankerous, Following the sun That is setting on their lives. They seek the glitzy, The every green, the warmth, Casting off their cares For their time in the sun. Maybe, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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