21 July 21
Hmm . . . we’ve posted daily on our website for 20-odd years and sent the weekly PLB NewsWire out every Thursday morning at 8am Australian EST since 2006, and this is only the second time we can recall that we’ve run a poem. No doubt that makes us uncultured, but anyway, it’s never too late to lift your game, and we were alerted to this one by a PLB reader in Oregon. It was written by 20-year-old Harrison Klaiss who’s a junior doing a writing major at Clark’s Honor College – and he wrote it for his father:
the surfer
the old surfer
whose body has
declined with age
stands stoic
before the waves.
it is tearing, to him,
to never surf again,
and yet it is glorious
to stand upon lands
once conquered by a passion
so pure and perfect.
the surfer stands now
not against
the taunting roar of the waves,
but with the memories
of moments when
those waves provided flight.
this is a love that never fades,
one far beyond that of the action,
but of the freedom, of the glory,
for the conquered seconds now
commanded to flow onshore.
the tide rises,
and the surfer’s heart fills more.
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