Moonlight Night: Carmel
Tonight the waves march
In long ranks
Cutting the darkness
With their silver shanks,
Cutting the darkness
And kissing the moon
And beating the land’s
Edge into a swoon.
Hello Friends,
It gives me shivers to think Langston Hughes once stood exactly where I’ve stood, looking out over the same magic landscape that is the beach after dark in Carmel, California. Today’s poem-a-day is from the 1959 edition of his Selected Poems — though several of his poems were first published in the Carmel Pine Cone.
Do you have a poem like that — one that makes you shiver with recognition of a path you walked or shoes you wore?
— Ellen