Day 302 - Naughty at the Seaside

Dedicated to my Daddy who read the book a million times over to me

Tell me the story again, she pleads

Sifting the sand between her toes

The one where they get caught up in the sea weeds

Nodding she can see that Daddy knows

So he puts on the funny face he saves

For only the best and most heroic tales

In which the adventurers hide in caves

Quickly pulling down their give-away sails

She walks on proudly sure she is the one

Who shall master the pirate's vast ship

A perfect day in the seaside sun

Water bright blue inviting a dip

Into tales of pirates who the wide world roam

Nothing else in the stories ever felt so like home

Day 301 - To the Ocean

Meet me in the ocean

To wash away our tears

In the blue depths that will dwarf them

As the skies dwarf the stars

Footsteps wash away in the blink of an eye

But our memories of the sea side last forever

There they are pulled back under the tide

White foam and bubbles appear as the sea laughs

Joy of the water shapes our shorelines

As your smile shapes my laugh lines

Meet me in the ocean

Day 100 - Boat Hope

Boat Hope

I have heard of a special time and place

Where boats could bring us face to face

To embrace at long last

Laughing at our lonely past

For love takes a relationship

But I would settle for your smiling lip

On the deck of that little boat

We could keep one another afloat

Across the wide expanse of sea

Bringing you closer to me

I can hear the waves in my heart

That keep us so far apart

I can also see the clear ocean blue

In your eyes, defining you

But for now it is only a lonely yacht

With all of my feelings caught

In the letters that we share

Though the distance is unfair

I cannot make it to you this time

Longing will last through another rhyme

And in every single line that we wrote

There on the ocean, hope is afloat