Poem: “Sea in a Shell” (#guestblogger)

If I lived in a seashell,

life would be easy,

perhaps even swell,

but as I do not live in a seashell,

and can but wish that I did,

I sit and listen for the ocean,

content to wait,

waiting for my shell,

my sea in a shell.

A. R. Frederiksen is a recurring guest blogger here at BnV, and her own writing blog can be found here, where she dabbles in flashfiction/poetry and reflects over the ABCs of writing.

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