Crimson’s Creative Challenge
The sweeping tide’s high
Sand and stone beneath the sky
The shrinking beach lies
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crispina kemp 
Very nicely done.
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I thank you.
Though the haiku can’t be seen until a click and click again on the photo. Why’d that happen? I’ve noticed it on others’ sites too.
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I didn’t have that problem. It could be browser specific I’m using Firefox?
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Seems so. I use Google Chrome. I came loaded, and I’m to lazy to change it.
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What is unseen, below, is sometimes the most interesting thing, as in your photo and your haiku.
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Agreed. Though in this instant, I know that beach. Yep, stony and sandy; the stones almost all are tumbled-smooth flints. Very occasionally you might find a scrap of flint, though don’t be deceived, it could be sea-coal; and even more rare are drops of amber. But then, once in a very rare time there’ll be fossils of woolly rhinoceros or a cave lion, or even an early hominid.
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Very cool!
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Unfortunately, it’s not my local beach. But then, I suppose I wouldn’t appreciate it so much if it was.
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That’s what I say to myself every time I visit the ocean, and then have to go back to my “reality” of hard earth.
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Yea, if it’s there all the time it’s no longer a treat. A bit like marriage!
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Haha. Yes. My guy used to travel a lot for business, and friends felt sorry for me. I tried to explain to them that it was a wonderful way for a marriage to stay fresh and snappy!
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Likewise, I had a really hot long-term relationship with a fella who worked in petro-chem. 4 months away, 1 month home. Ideal. Especially since I’m content with my own company. 🙂
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Phew, I’m fanning my face! 😉
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Yea, well, nothing lasts. He remains a treased fixture in my heart. But then, so do several others. Oops, 🙂 (No, not all at once)
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Very nicely done!
And no double clicking for me either…
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I thank you.
And, humph, maybe it’s only on my Reader.
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I like that, and the picture. And on firefox I didn’t have to double click either.
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Thanks, Gaby.
And I’m convinced, now, it’s just a quirk of my system.
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Nice haiku and er..on the peril of being repetitive, no double clicking for me either! 😀
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I thank you, regards the haiku. And I’m getting the message now. It’s my system that’s kronky.
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I swear I’ve a problem with my system. Now your blog won’t accept my comment under my name but twice as labeled me as ‘Unknown’. Ho-hum, eh. 🙂
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Love the haiku, Crispina. And a rhyming one too; it has a very soothing rhyming – just like the tide! 🙂
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I thank you, Sammi. I do have a preference for rhyme. I’m only happy to ignore it when using iambic pentometers. But then the rhythm carries it. Not that I write that much poetry. 🙂
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A soothing haiku with a touch of mystery about the things that lie hidden.
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That you, Andrea 🙂
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