Lycia Harding Poet Rhyme

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Boats At High Tide

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Raging, inviting. Inscrutable ice
King Neptune's daughter, her moods are water
You won't dive into the same ocean twice
She'll make you think it's your net that has caught her

Catch and release is her patent device
Wives tales have brought her whales to the slaughter
You'll receive notice of your sacrifice
on paper she folds into boats at high tide

Each kiss that she blows grows to gale at shoreline
She weighs on the scale that you chose to define
She's the grate of the sand. She's the dock. She's the bank
She will wait on dry land and watch you walk the plank

In their wake, sharks leave trails with their fins in the brine
but the trident that pins you makes marks you can't find
and impaled, you give in to each heartbreaking tine
yet forget every time that you sank

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Richard Lamoureux March 26, 2021 at 6:36 AM Captan Hook would approve of this clever use of metophor.

Michelle Faulkner January 23, 2021 at 10:22 AM Hi Lycia, this I love the internal rhyme and the unexpected structure of the end rhymes too, it does remind me of a boat bobbing on the waves - and that heart breaking last line - am making a Fave~ Lycia Harding January 27, 2021 at 9:05 PM Thank you, Michelle! Xoxo LyLy