Calm/Down Time

August 14

I am thankful for calm. Calm is nice after hectic days, high drama, and the high intensity lives we lead in this modern world. It is nice, just to relax, prop your feet up, and chill, as they say. Maybe too much calm could become boring, but not after high adrenaline sweepstakes. Everybody needs it every now and then.

This is a photo I took on our trip to Gulfport last week. It was late in the evening, just before sunset. The tide was out and there was a stillness and a calm that you could feel. I think this photo translates that feeling pretty well. A stroll on the beach was all I needed to relax me. This is another HDR photo.

calm down

“won’t you just calm down?”

is what i smugly said to her

as she fretted and worried

with a high intensity stir

“i hate it when you say that!”

she said with a frown

“you never get upset about anything

“and are difficult to be around”

hmm well ok

perhaps so

yes that could be

so i’ll chill and you fret

we’ll stay ourselves

no regret.

© rt tulley

calm

the calmness is all around

as i gaze out at the sea

i come here lost

lost to everyone and me

but i come here

to feel a renew

from the calmness around me

transfixed at the blue

there is plenty of space

for the still to take away the stress

that i brought to this place

so i let it work its magic

as it sucks the bad away

and i can leave behind

my stress for another day.

© rt tulley