Fernandina Beach Haiku

[albaugh1976]

I spent a year on Amelia Island, Florida...Did quite a bit of hiking around the island...Here's a few haiku poems I wrote during that time:

atlantic breaks white
summer blue on horizon
white sands of south end


jellyfish on beach
baking in afternoon sun
careful where i step


sitting on train tracks
shrimp festival fireworks
explode in night sky


sunset on south end
starfish drying in the sand
waiting on the tide


lime wedge washed ashore
glistening in the evening sun
on the south end sands


walking through the streets
of downtown fernandina
where heaven meets earth

[refrigerator]

Very nice ! Very creative.

Do you have any pictures of this island? I have very little experience Island hiking and wish to start doing some as I age in life in need for warmer climate.

[albaugh1976]

Thank you. I have a few pictures in my yahoo photo album at profiles.yahoo.com/albaugh1976

Amelia Island, where I lived, is next door to Cumberland Island. Cumberland, for the vast majority, is protected land. There are wild horses that run the island and they have adapted (so the story goes) to drinking ocean water, as there are few fresh water sources to be found on the island. Cumberland, historically, was the playground of the railroad and oil tycoons of the early 20th century.

John Kennedy Jr married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island.