Lovers’ tryst
Prompted by their tryst eternal, Sea sends wave on crashing wave,
Churning, frothing, roiling Ocean, spits her foaming peaks so bright.
Sand awaits impatiently, holding to his word and promise.
Passion governs acts and deeds, rendezvous unleashed by promise,
Time yawns chasms between the tides, separating dunes and waves,
Exile from each other’s grasp, ignites the light of lust full bright.
Sea shimmers in jewels of sun, and elegant moonlight bright.
Sand, handsome, coarse and rugged, holds as firm as their kept promise.
Torrid and tempestuous, she drags him slowly out in waves.
For each grab of grains she claims with a wave, she leaves in her wake, bright foam to mark her progress. Time has masked the whys of their tussle; a fight, or a promise?
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Asha Rajan 
I loved this! I live right by Long Island Sound and though our waves aren’t very big, this had me standing on the beach in the middle of winter. Great job using the tritina prompt without feeling like you were trying to. And thanks for my prompt words!!
Thanks so much, Cheney! This is my first tritina (and in the copy paste on my tablet, I successfully lost the last line somewhere. Thank all the google gods I had it saved in docs). I’m super delighted that you found a connection with this.
You’re very welcome for the words. I’m really looking forward to reading what you did.
Thanks! Glad I came to Yeah Write this week and we found each other! 🙂
I wondered if your view would affect your poem. 🙂 Lovely!
Hahaha the sea is a constant in my life, but being on vacation hasn’t hurt at all!
I like the way you personified so many concepts within this form.
This feels like an oral history, a myth passed down through generations. The way you divided your lines into four + four beats gives it a formal, ritual flavor. It really demands to be read aloud, I think.
I could write about the ocean all day long – so I loved this.
I really wanted to pour over this, read it slowly as the images build and grow. Really lovely.
You should write poetry more. You convinced me of the passion between earth and ocean.
This is lovely and I adored the last sentence in particular. Cyn and Christine’s comments are spot on (although I don’t have Christine’s ear for meter unless it’s rhyming).
I adore this — very ancient, like a recently-uncovered origin myth.
I’m echoing pretty much everyone else here, but I loved the mythic feel of this. Sand and Sea and their relationship felt so human and so magical at the same time.
OOH, I’d like to hear you read this out loud! Lovely work, Asha. My tritina ended up being non-fiction. Shocker huh?
Asha, you have such a great way with words. I especially adore that final stanza!
I love this one…I’m going to have to try a tritina as I’m loving almost all I’ve read. I love the ocean and your imagery is so vivid, I found myself picturing my local beach do this.
This is a beautiful example of how to poem.