When They Come

Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts

With the sound of eternity and the rolling power.
 The acrobatics, the foamy spreads.
   Immersed
  into the tumbles, images, trails and the clouds.

 The points of infinite, unfolding in front of my eyes... 

Sounds

Crane Beach, Massachusetts   

No wind today...

High tide is on its way down, deep breaths of the Ocean are about the only sound I can hear.
 And even now, in this quietness,
  there are voices of perpetual motion, the eternal comings and goings,
     imbuing the familiar with the touches of untold... 

When Time Stops

Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

... in the endless rhythmic motions and sounds of waves...   

It is All About Waves

Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Somewhere in ocean, perhaps a thousand miles and more from this beach,
the pulse beat of earth liberates a vibration, an ocean wave...

Once created, the wave...begins its journey through the sea...

It approaches the continent...courses ashore, breaks, dissolves, is gone.
The innermost waters it last inhabited
            flow back in marbly foam to become a body to another beat...

So it goes night and day,
and will go till the secret heart of earth strikes out its last slow beat,
and the last wave dissolves upon the last forsaken shore...

HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House

Roaring Nor'easter

Cape Ann, Massachusetts

... waves in my eyes, the roaring sounds,
        and a nebulous feeling of being in touch with the Planet... 

After the Storm

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

Arriving on the Island right after the last night's storm... clouds and sounds are still here...
   I hear the roaring ocean and feel the tremors in my throat...
    ... surging, crashing, spuming, with the resonance of imperial authority... in silence... 

Swashing Comeback

Crane Beach, Massachusetts

... this one is for the ocean...

Together

Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge, Rhode Island
 
I love ducks... I love waves... and Sachuest brings them together...
   ... crushing ocean and these teeny-tinies... in total control...