Watching water
slowly fill
Waves get bigger
bigger still
Beach gets smaller
Sea get wide
Standing here
with rising tide
Skim a pebble
watch it fly
crossing water
bouncing high
Up the shingle
further I
watching here
the rising tide
©Jemverse
[Pre-empting the start of a 12-part Jemverse series running between 17 and 28 April – “The Sea series”]