Name: Eulogy On a Deserted Beach
Duration: P00H02M17S
Description: I wrote the core of this poem after looking at a shipwreck on Djupalonssandur Beach, Iceland, 2004

Eulogy On a Deserted Beach

from Everlasting Remembrance by Billy Plant

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I wrote the core of this poem after looking at a shipwreck on Djupalonssandur Beach, Iceland, 2004

lyrics

Black pebbled beaches are where the dead hang out.
Grey ghosts on black rocks
under dolomite columns reaching for heaven
that won’t be found
as the rusting carriage of death decays,
streaming red into the rocks
and is carried away more and more each day
across the screeching, grinding rocks;
as the waves reach cold arms to take away
and bury forever
what they have destroyed
a timeless exhibition
for those who will listen
and a similar fate avoid

the soul goes seaward
free of the mast
free of hunger, sweat, and snares
but no way to go home
sailing alone
across waves
and moonlight airs

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from Everlasting Remembrance, released April 5, 2020
Billy Plant - guitar, mandolin, vocal
Roy Watts - cajon, shaker

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Billy Plant Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Billy Plant is a land surveyor and graphic designer in Murfreesboro, TN. He has played music since 1986.

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