Jolanta Janavicius

Catching a Wave

I SLEPT SO WELL LAST NIGHT JUST PUT MY HEAD ON THE PILLOW AND WAS OFF INTO DREAMLAND AND WHEN I WOKE UP IT WAS MORNING A MOST BEAUTIFUL SUNNY MORNING WARM NOT TOO HOT AS YET THE BLUEST BLUE SKY YOU COULD IMAGINE THE MOST URGENT THING FOR ME TO DO NOW WAS TO GO TO THE BEACH CHECK THE WAVES AND RUN INTO THE FROTHING SURF MY MAN GOT UP EARLY TOO SQUEEZED ORANGE JUICE AND GRAPEFRUIT JUICE FOR ME WE THEN HOPPED INTO THE CAR IN OUR SWIMMERS AND DROVE DOWN TO FRESHWATER BEACH WE SAW BIRDS FROLICKING IN THE SKY LORIKEETS IN ALL RAINBOW COLOURS THEIR WINGS SHIMMERING THEIR TAILS SPREAD OUT LIKE A FAN AGAINST THE SUN OH SO LUMINOUS THE GREENS AND THE GOLDS IN THE BLUE SKY THE SURF WAS ROLLING IN IN LONG WHITE ROLLS THE WAVES JUST RIGHT NOT TOO BIG NOT LIKE FRIDAY MORNING ROARING RUMBLING TOWARD THE SHORE THE KING TIDE ALL THE BEACHES WERE CLOSED AND ON AUSTRALIA DAY TOO FLOCKS OF DISAPPOINTED CITY PEOPLE JUST WAITING FOR THE HUGE SEAS TO CALM DOWN BUT THIS MORNING OH THIS MORNING THE SURF WAS ROLLING IN IN LONG SWEEPING WHITE ROLLS PLAYFUL SPRAY SHIMMERING IN THE SUN I SHIVERED WITH PLEASANT ANTICIPATION SAVOURING THE REFRESHING COOLNESS OF THE WAVES WHEN THE WATER REACHED MY WAIST I PLUNGED INTO A WAVE DIVING UNDER IT POPPING UP GULPING A MOUTHFUL OF SWEET SEA AIR THEN WATCHING EVERY ON-COMING WAVE WITH A HAWK’S EYE FOR THE RIGHT ONE TO COME ALONG I WAS WAITING FOR A BIG FAT BREAKER WITH MASSES OF WATER BEHIND IT TO GIVE ME A MIGHTY PUSH AND WHEN IT CAME I WAS READY I SWUNG AROUND STRETCHED MY BODY LIKE AN ARROW AND DIVED IN FRONT OF THE BREAKING WAVE OH EXHILARATION I WAS RUSHING FLYING TOWARD THE SHORE IN THE CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS HAPPY AS A LARK

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