Poem: Sawtell Beach
In this week’s Poet’s Corner, Leon van der Linde captures a beguiling moment of seaside serenity.
Sawtell Beach
Mid North Coast, New South Wales
a glint of content
in the sun’s golden-warm
arc
blissful the sweep
of each faint
cool breeze
serenity sets sail
a yacht
on the ocean
as it swirls from pale
to dark marine blue
soulful the rhythm
of sea spray
on the rocks
splashed in black
and changing
silvery hues
gratitude lingers
in fading footprints
gulls meditating
on the off-white
sand
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the past and future
arise and cease
merging into
carefree awareness
this beguiling moment
at Sawtell Beach
Leon van der Linde was born in Zambia. After 10 years in Tasmania, he now lives with his family on a small farm near the rural locality of Yarrowyck on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. ‘Yallaroo is a jewel and I have found home…’ With a PhD in psychology from Western Sydney University, he works as a psychologist in nearby Armidale specialising in brief or time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. He is the author of the book ‘A New Drive-Relational-Neuroscience Synthesis for Psychoanalysis’, details of which can be found here.