Lucy Giardino Cortese
JAX BEACH POSTCARDS
Bathing beauties sashay across the sand
Norma Jean look-a-likes hand in hand
Ancient times before bikinis and thongs
Transistor radios blare rock-n-roll songs
Sunny shoreline long, lush and palmy
Simpler times when thoughts were balmy
Marching bands roar their oom-pa-pas
Splashing kids chased by Dads and Mas
Black sedans line the mile-wide beach
Scores float away by high tide’s reach
Shrimp boats pass to their port’s return
Baby oil and iodine guarantee a burn
Fishermen cast their nets and cares
Amusement rides charge nickel fares
Sand dunes sheltered by seaoats lace
My beach, my solace, my favorite place
Like destruction by Matthew and Dora
Salty images float in a nostalgic aura
Memories crushed as shells on the shore
Fragments of childhood alive nevermore
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Living my personal mission statement, “Each One, Teach One,” my greatest blessing is being the mother of two, grandmother of three and a lifelong educator. A graduate of UF and UNF, I am the former principal of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and executive director of Tree Hill Nature Center in Jacksonville.
Since retirement my avocation is now my vocation – freelance writing. The technical writing of past professional life evolved into more creative genres of poetry, short fiction and memoir. My goal is to invoke the entire spectrum of human emotions in my reader: longing to laughter, pain to promise, despair to discernment.
