by chance or nature’s
changing course untrimmed – but thy
summer shall not fade
Sonnet 18 for the 18th Day of October, 2024.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
This is the beach access at marker 56A on Hilton Head Island on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
A summer day any where else maybe but with a sea breeze at 20 miles an hour out of the north, the beach sparkled and shined and made you feel happy for a warm coat.
The sand is soft but with careful steps you can make to the tide line and the hard sand and keep your shoes on.
But with the wind whipping about the beach, blowing the sand, its your socks that get filled with sand.
Cold but with that sun shining on the water …
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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