Run with the wind, dance with the sea.

May-day poetry twenty

Run with the wind, dance with the sea.

A Poem by Coyote Poetry
When life make us sad. Need to find reason and purpose.  

                   Run with the wind,  dance with the sea.

(May-days poetry twenty)

One year in paradise and we fell from  our heaven. Nights of love and passion overtaken by silence and a goodbye.

I climbed to the highest mountain I could find. Took me hours to go to the Olympic mountains in Washington State.
I found a unmarked path and I tried to touch the sky.

I went to the ridge of the mountain and I watched the hawks flying in the open sky. I sat and prayed for some kind of peace. The hawks sat close. Keeping me company.

I was dead in heart and my spirit saw no peace or calm. A gentle rain came down. The forest somehow overtook my eyes and I was swimming in nature beauty. I thanks the great Spirit for this day. I took the long walk back to my truck and thinking of the gifts of nature all around me.

I realized how small I was.

I held my suicide board tightly and the rope  was connected to my wrist. I held the board close even if I lost it. Me and my good friend Padget went into the Winter storms of the oceans without fear. Took 45 minute to find the strongest point of the waves. I was tossed in all directions by the powerful sea. Some were 200 feet in height and I felt one with the water. She could took me away or allowed me to dance with her.

Many people would watch us daily and they would come to us. They would ask us did we fear the ocean or were we crazy? I would tell them. “Take no chances, know no pleasure or you won’t  know the feel of testing life and death.”

I met the woman again. She came to me and she asked me to come back to her. She told me “I missed you and I’m sorry for being loco sometime.”

I smiled and I remembered crying in my beer. Being lost and confused. I look at the Seaside ocean and I remembered the breeze of the mountain air. The hawks sitting across from me. “Whispering know the real joy of life. Leave the s**t behind. Run with the wind.”

I watched the ocean dance and she was calling me. I wished to go to her. Dance with the waves and be free.

I reached over and kissed my old love. I told her, ” Thank you and I told her I found a true love. I will run with wind and I will dance with sea. I will be free and strong.”

                         Coyote
                       13 Nov 2010

Author's Note

Thank you for reading.

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Amaaazing beautiful out of this world. But in it at same time so “far out “ is my expression !
I can just see you surfing those giant waves n curls and rims
Could be in the sixties seventies
Could be any paradise on earth Hawaii Calif or Australia anywhere where the ocean beckons man to be one with it
I felt I was there reading your poem / story
Thanks 🙏

[Coyote Poetry]

Dancing with a storm dear Julie. Make you feel at peace with life. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

No worries you very welcome 🙏

[Azifwecare]

Nature's majesty healed you. This is glorious I love the poem. Let the wind take you and dance with the sea. ❣️

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you my dear friend. Nature can heal us.

[sharonlee]

Beautifully penned Coyote... rich in imagery and memories. Thank you for sharing.

Sharonlee

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you my dear friend. I need a year near the Pacific.

[sharonlee]

I understand completely.... the Pacific is only 30 minute drive from me, closest point is Coolum Beach where I use to live.
However 30 minutes may as well be 3000 minutes when one isn't a driver and doesn't have a vehicle.
I miss Coolum. I use to the beaches and bush tracks every day.

Sharonlee