LITTLE SHADOWS AT SUNDOWN

1. MY POEM TODAY goes back to the sea for those old sounds, the old sights, so familiar with my growing up. I was an only son, and had sisters to protect. Like thi...s young lad who has his sisters covered.
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3. LITTLE SHADOWS AT SUNDOWN
4. (For the Wee Ones at the Beach)
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7. There is where here is:
   Do you hear the murmur
   Of the sea waves laving this shore?
   It is the whispered caress of a mother
   Come upon her little ones’ romp
   Among the sundown shadows.
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9. Where the flushed horizon
   Meets the sea, a father’s
   Face gleams ruddy
   With laughter’s heat
   Still on his crinkled brow.
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11. O, that this cacophony of sounds
    Becomes the noise of a lifetime
    This heart (from a distance)
    Could hearken to, leap up to,
    Velvety notes of a joie de vivre
    That this place was built for,
    Made of, remembered by:
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13. Is this not, after all, the paradise
    He thought was lost in time past
    Visited now upon his dotage
    When he hankers for joy,
    A little life left, while there is time?
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15. The little shadows taunt the sea
    To reach their limbs. Gleeful,
    Their now surprised screams,
    When touched at last, are drowned
    By whimper of the ebbtide waves
    That has turned to gentle laughter.
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    ---ALBERT B. CASUGA