Poetry: August Buddina

Here's another of my poems. It's about the beach again and I wrote it back in August 2003 when I'd been on the Sunshine Coast only a few months.


Rushing to the shore, urgently whispering;
Onward forevermore through the atlas of history.
Sparkling diamonds, a gift from the sun,
They bring along with them as they rush along.

A surge of aggression, a pure show of power,
Untamed by time, crash with a shower.
Perfect formations, a beauty to behold;
Always a new-born yet so wise and old.

Constant forever, yet never the same,
This wild beast of nature can ravage and maim.
Bubbling and beading then rushing away;
Pushing and pulling, filling the bay;
Calmy lapping the sands of the shore,
Coming and going forever more.