The poem below is the second one I wrote for the book “Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women”. There were many submissions for the book, which became a #1 bestseller on Amazon in just one day; I consider myself very fortunate to have been among those selected to appear in this important and timely anthology of the challenges and adversities women face and how they overcome them. I hope you enjoy my poem “The Shells”.
Shells scattered along the shore
Some glittering in the golden sunlight
Lapis lazuli kisses of blue and green upon the water
So wondrous in their radiant beauty
Delicate as the blossoms of a dewy lilac tree
Day and night the waves wash over the shells
Yet they retain their brilliant resilience
Trodden upon by eyes bewitched by shooting stars
In the blackness of the night
Some are picked up and tossed into the sea
Only to return upon the next wave
Those trampled into the sand do not sink
They are not swallowed up by the sea
Nor do they disappear
For as fragile and tenuous as they may appear
They stand the eternal test of time
Ever rising as an Easter Morn
For they are the She Shells
They are women
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