My poem (nothing amazing but it made me smile...)

mood: um, I forget
music: the ringing of my cell phone, should probably go get that...
random word: teletransportation (shh... it's a word)

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The Lifeguard Chair
(for Laura & Becky and the Jersey Shore)

By day, it is a perch
For the red-clad lifeguard
Who watches children frolic amidst the seafoam
Constantly counting to make sure they are all still there

At night, it lays on its side
Overturned, to guard against strong gusts of wind
Like a sleepy toddler, it curls up on its side

It is a quaint wooden swing
Where best friends sit side-by-side
Basking in the abalone twilight
The moon, like a lonely pearl that floated away one night,
Admires its own reflection
In the velvet ocean ripples

It is a moss-speckled tower
Where the princess of a stone castle stands
Her hair tossing about in the breeze
Until its waves are as wild and unruly as the surf

It is a pirate ship
For young scallywags
Who dig eagerly in the sand
In search of buried treasure
A pebble, a shell, or if they’re lucky,
A shiny piece of seaglass
Its edges worn smooth
By the patient ebbing of water and time
One cannot put a value on riches such as these

It is a haven for lovers
Who drink crisp ocean air
Until they can taste the salt upon their lips
Like the trace of a first kiss the next morning
Hand-in-hand they wait for sunrise
Rocking to the rhythm of the tides
And counting stars instead of children.