Slip Slidin' Away

[poliphilo]

Building sandcastles is serious work. You need a garden spade if you wanna make an impression on that beach.

And plastic soldiers and a paper flag.

Here comes the tide. 

Gotta build higher, gotta build wider.  And whoops- oh no-  a breach. There's a man down. The moat is flooding, the outer walls have turned to slurry. And a slab breaks away from the central mass everytime a wave slaps at it.

Five minutes- tops- and your work of ages has gone.

One day I'm gonna build a castle sooo tall and soooo fat that the sea is just gonna shrug and go round it.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful analogy. It struck a chord with me in a big way.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

A love of sandcastles is something I've passed onto my kids. Michael, for instance- even though he's in his late twenties- builds one whenever he goes to the beach.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I´m originally from Michigan, the land of the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan has the finest castle building sand on earth. They have contests every year and I´ve seen some incredible sandcastles and sand sculptures over the years. You´d love it. It´s an art!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh wow- yes. I've seen those sand sculpture competitions on TV. The amazing things people come up with! I don't believe there's anywhere in Britain where the sand is good enough for that kind of fine, detailed work.

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

26 counts me in as 'late twenties'?

hmm. i'd prefer 'mid-twenties' for the time-being, if you please. perhaps even, if you must, 'late mid-twenties'.

lawks-a-mussy, imagine what alexander had done by that age? keats of course was already dead!

and yes- it's true, still building sandcastles at the beach. really there's nothing else to do at a beach, is there?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Some people go to the beach to soak up the rays- whatever that is....

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

It's called "an island"...

-And no man is an island, though Dolly Parton might rightfully be said to be islands in the stream.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I always picture myself as Davy Crockett defending the Alamo.

[momof2girls.livejournal.com]

I had to chuckle at your last line!

Is the sand castle a metaphor for life?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I rather think it is... ;)

[currawong.livejournal.com]

You and King Canute ... you wild romantic, you!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky..."

"Sea Fever"

[(Anonymous)]

Don't mind a bit of flung spray and blown spume myself ... (smacks own wrist).

Re: "Sea Fever"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's the one.....

You naughty matelot, you.....