True Nature

by Angela Hoffman
 

My focus is on the waves, white-capped 
folding in on themselves
relentless in moving forward
frantic, worried 
falling back, receding
doing it all over again.

But my gaze is pulled to a wider view 
where blue meets blue for as far as I can see
both the width and length of life
the entirety of the ocean offering tranquility
awakening a longing.
The shore still holds, each tiny grain of sand
kissed by eternity. 


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Angela Hoffman lives in Wisconsin. Her poetry has appeared in Solitary Plover, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Museletter and calendar, Agape Review, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, and Your Daily Poem.com. Her first chapbook (Resurrection Lily, Kelsay Books) is scheduled for release in 2022. She committed to writing a poem a day during the pandemic. Spirituality and nature often inspire her poetry.