Eight-line Poems

Muizenberg Beach

Muizenberg Beach

Ah, the sun-soaked days of my childhood,
so often under the open skies and sands
where the gentle sea lapped at the strand,
the waves hissing as they spent themselves
on the sloping beach, crumbling the castles
of dreams we built too close to the tide.

Yet I never learned to swim in those days,
waiting until the ocean lay a continent away.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, January 29 2021
Prompt: Strand.