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Abaft the beam the aberration spun
Below the turbid surface like a pearl
Commanding all attentions, overrun

Dissolving as colloidal midst the swirl
Encircled tons of matter as dissolved
Fierce vortices, toroidal in their whorl

Gesticulating with his mates, involved
Hypotheses suffused the captain's ire
Intense 'twas this anomaly, unsolved

Just as a jester moon dipped to retire
Kinetic phosphorescence flit the mast
Low on the mizzen, as St. Elmo's fire

Miraculous, a beam shone in its caste
Now tying ship to sea by water brake
On deck the crew were timidly aghast

Pervading all, their need to undertake
Quick means to thus escape adversity
Relinquishing to flee that eddy's wake

Surmising that the undertow would be
Too close to e'er escape its pearly skin
Unhesitant the captain plunged the sea

Virulent, boiled the brine, he in its spin
With sword held tight, defiantly above
Xiphoidals sliced the vortex from within

Yet with the ebbing sea his crew thereof 
Zeus in his glory, never knew such love.







~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Quirky Tercets" Poetry Contest, Nina Parmenter, Judge & Sponsor.

~ 3rd Place ~  in the "Abecedarian Contest" Poetry Contest, Caren Krutsinger, Judge & Sponsor.

( This form is called "ABC" or "Abecedarian", and it's also an Epic Terza Rima in Iambic Pentameter, with 10 syllables/line, counted @ HowManySyllables.com )

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