wave after wave –
beneath the sunlit eyelid
days of long ago
one more heave –
the wave silences its foam
in the sands
end of season –
with no witnesses wave by wave
washing the earth
poems by Corneliu Traian Atanasiu
These three poems brought to mind Salvador Dalí’s famous surrealist work. What connects them is the ephemeral: memories, time passing inexorably, leaving behind only dust, and earth.
Perhaps nowhere do we become more acutely aware of the ambivalence of our being—as Pico della Mirandola declared, neither celestial nor earthly—than on a deserted beach. Beyond all trace of the carnival of vanities.
In the end, the only unseen witness that accompanies us throughout life is our conscience... The rest is just a story.
Comment by Ramona Bădescu
