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Naomi Rosado – The Shore

This month’s Versed in Florida is with University of South Florida senior Naomi Rosado. She’s studying English, Creative Writing and possibly music. She just transferred to Tampa from FGCU and is originally from the Miami area. Rosado tells WGCU’s Amy Tardif she started writing poetry in seventh grade but didn’t take it seriously until this year.

The Shore

Ssssh

   Husssh

Ssssh

   Husssh

Ssssh

The waves pull in

   Husssh

They push from shore

Hear them sigh

   They tire of Neptune's orders

Advance          Retreat

   Rinse               Repeat

               Again               Repeat

Casting salty shadows

upon wet sand

Seagull idle chatter

pitter-patter of tiny feet

-Squeals-

Pails of sand

for castles

The ocean plays with them

peak-a-boo

   The waves have gone -

Here they are!

   Where have they gone?

HERE THEY ARE!

Sssh

   Husssh

the constant

murmur

spilling secrets from

foamy lips

Slipping seashells

into my hair

I prance about

the shore

silk pressed sand

leaving prints of my soul

behind me

Tiny hermits

flee in terror

at the behemoth

Seaweed

wraps about my legs

claiming me as its own

   But I

Am not

   A Siren

I have legs that run

down the sandy shore

filled with stars above

the sky

               a flickering lighthouse

   in the distance

broken beer bottles

   abandoned sand castles

               of great Kings

                           of The Pail

ALL crushed by the behemoth

Crimson trails behind me

Slitting the skin

of my soles

I

Am

Helen

   I leave destruction in my wake

I flaunt before Neptune

he will never catch me

for I retreat

   from the waves

to the shore

seashells in my hair

   as the waves sigh

Ssssh

   Husssh

Ssssh...