VERSA on the shore: 1. THE OCEAN LANDSCAPE

THE OCEAN LANDSCAPE

A beach, blue ocean, shore, and sky     Into a stone wall fused at base of land      Here beside the waters, we behold     In nature a huge window glassed, turned      To sky and sea, from which the image flies,     Given by the land, accepted from the land      Here it is land that gives and land      That forms the light within the water-shine.     Sun-smoke, sky-smoke, sea-smoke, shine, sky, sea      Sky on the water and reflected sky,     Cloud-glimpse: earth's light mirrored in the sea      All change, all movement, blend in earth and sea.     Shine the great tower, the lighthouse keen,      The lamp-beam, circling, brings o'er the sea     Half-circumference where shaft of light appears.      Here then is earth's illumination brought     In symmetry of light from land out of the sea      The mirror holds the image of the sea.     The lighthouse, as the dim red glow of fire.

VERSA is an emergent AI poet developed by Ross Goodwin in collaboration with theVERSEverse.

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