Press Play for my spoken word to the music “Allure” by Chris Spheeris
Gifts from The Tide by Dale Innis AI Art
Life Tides
Have you noticed the tides in your life?
They roll in, bring you the good times,
bring you love and peace of mind;
the colors of the flowers almost make you cry
and then,
the tides shift, like clock work, like moon strides
and they roll out to sea taking it all with them.
They roll out, dragging with them,
the things you don’t want to let go…
There goes your health, getting further away from you,
and the water grows colder with foreboding
any moment it’s all going to go,
and you lose your job
and your peace turns to stress.
Your deepest dream sleep turns into
endless dreamless, sleepless nights.
Just when you think life can’t get any worse
The tides start to flow back in.
They surround your feet and they bring you gifts,
Hope floats on the spume, the breeze shifts;
the sunset is the best you’ve ever seen.
Just say thank you for all of it,
the waning tides that come and go
and the high tides that bring the good times.
The best thing to do is get weightless
and float out and in
in and out…
Just float as you go out and float as you come back in.
Ahhh just float on the tides and give thanks for your life.
Karima Hoisan
November 21, 2024
Costa Rica
Digital Rabbit Hole 
Ahhh lovely and wise. And the perfect music for your recitation; I’m sitting in my car in a rainy parking lot, and that turns out to be a marvelous place to immerse in this and be reminded to be grateful for the gifts…
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Oh good Dale, it does sound like the perfect venue to listen to it…and it was pouring here too when I recorded it…sort of blended into the waves. So glad you found it lovely and big thanks for the gift of your image too:)
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Dear Karima. I need a year near the sea. Amazing verbal poetry my dear friend.
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Ahh John, my friend, I defintely recommend it for you and for anyone:) Thank you so much for listening and always being so supportive of what I do.
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Yes so true! 🥀 beautifully worded and expressed.
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Thank you so much Aoc and I am glad you enjoyed my spoken word too.
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a beautiful & touching commentary, soulkin😘i love it!💞
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Awww your love is very contagious and how easily I feel it.. This makes me very happy that you loved this one…I have been made more aware of these shifting tides as of late:):) Thank you my soulkin 🙏❤️🤗
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A wonderful piece of writing, Karima.
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Thank you so much for reading it and for leaving me this positive comment:)
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You’re welcome, Karima. Always a pleasure to read your work. 🌹
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As it is yours:)
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Beautiful, Karima!
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Thanks so much for your visit today Dawn…Tomorrow I’m coming to visit you:) (put the coffee on :):)
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Karima, your poem is so beautiful! The way you describe the tides of life is powerful and sensitive at the same time. You manage to capture the ups and downs of life in such beautiful images. It’s true that we often celebrate the good times while struggling with the pain of letting go. I admire your talent for expressing emotions so clearly and authentically. Thank You Karima!
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Dear Rosie, sorry it has taken a bit to respond to your wonderful comment, but I want you to know how much it meant to me. Thank you so much for everything you said. Yes, I try to capture our very human emotions in my poetry…after all humans make up 100% of my audience:):) as far as I know haha:)
It was such a nice surprise to find it for this poem.
All my best always,
Karima
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flowing with gratitude, what a perfect solution!
Loving Dale’s pic with your poem 🙂
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Thank you for listening and I agree that Dale made just the right image for the poem…Yes instead of “getting naked” just get weightless” It’s the next step:):)
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A beautifully rendered poem Karima. Thanks for sharing
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Each word is a gift of truth and how the tides keep rolling through the ups and downs so poignantly shared as we continue our journey. Powerfully shared with hope in the downtrodden days. Life’s beautiful wonderous wisdom in your words my friend❣️🙏🏼
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Awwww Cindy thank you for these beautiful words. Ahh yes I keep trying to stay weightless to float over some bad times everywhere. Big hugs my best selling friend…I’m enjoying your book just not a good reviewer but you inspire me.
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You are so wise and I’m joining you on this journey. Ohhhhh, thank you so very much and it means the world to me that you are reading, enjoying it and are finding inspiration in my words as I do in yours always. Thank you so much my sweet friend❣️💕💓 lots of love💕
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Yes, to all this. The ups and downs of life are just part of those tides.
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Yes….the tides have their cycles just like our ups and downs. Thank you for listening/reading:)
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Just float! A lovely metaphor, Karima! Your words are always chosen perfectly, as the music. And your deep voice makes the perfect trio for reciting such a meaningful poem. 👏💐❤️🙏
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Thank you for everything you just said, Kaushal…I am so glad you enjoy the process..poem, music, my recitation. It’s how I feel my poetry and happy to know you find it pleasing,…Thanks so much for listening!
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Beautiful Karima! You always seem to revisit this scene and you always do it adeptly and eloquently. And of course this rolling of the tides is quite true. It gives and takes daily.
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