SELECT: Flotsam windswept, left in wake, as wept
March 27th, 2014
| Categories: aging, emotional turmoil, environment, memoirs, top ranked, youth
Watch the ephemeral waves
on oceans eternal
those wary warrior braves
their persistence vernal
Days raced in the froth of my youth
like driven waves, white capping
while now I’m a laggardly sleuth
usually caught napping
Am a poseur among knaves
a most tiresome recluse
one who cowers from the waves
pushing pretexts profuse
Flotsam on stormy ocean
oblivious, obtuse
swept in howling commotion
in existence abstruse
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-abstruse = hard to understand; recondite; esoteric
-flotsam = floating wreckage
-sleuth = here: someone who searches for, observes & inquires
edited 10/11/2026 0820
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