Sea of Sunset
This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!
Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.
THE SEA OF SUNSET
Emily Dickinson
There’s something so soothing about the ocean and sunsets.
I enjoyed the photo-poetry combination. They are compatible.
Well, I’ve been posting these Weekend Road Trip photos for years, hoping someone could use at least one of them as inspiration for setting.
Breathtaking.
I’ve only recently re-discovered how wonderful and image evoking poetry can be but these pictures are so striking that I begin to understand a little just how evocative settings themselves can be to the creation of poetry itself. Thanks for sharing. I love standing on shores (lake, river levees, ocean) and letting my imagination roam as to where the current or tide might take me if I simply found a worthy vessel and let myself drift a bit.