Hey! I wanted to tell you that back in the beginning of October, I had won First place, in the Magical Mystery Tour category, in the Princess Ronkonkoma Productions Poetry Contest. The title of my poem is “The Wave”. Here it is now…




The Wave

By Jack Batcher



Look out to the infinite blue no-where of the ocean

Notice the manifestation of a wave slowly form

Watch the wave as it moves towards the shore

The wave grows in strength and power

Closing in on the shoreline it transitions from no-where to now here



Listen closely as the wave builds to its peak

There is a moment

Where all the magic and mystery of the world hides

Between the wave’s trough and its crest

Silence



A symphony can be heard in the silence

This silence passes quick as a fuse lit on both ends

When the wave breaks

Its crashing on the shoreline sends salty mist into the air

Streaking endless possibilities like Perseids meteor shower on a cloudy night



How many shooting stars did you catch?

How many shooting stars slipped through your fingers and got away?



Those opportunities vanish as the riptide pulls the wave away

Gone forever from the now here of the shoreline

The wave returns back to the infinite blues of no-where.



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Jack Batcher
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