Captiva morns -

wish! wish! wish for the sun! there, once ... in port on Captiva, slumbering the bottlenoses sang me to every first blush ... tender, daily, they'd wake me gentle, silken backs, a-finned slipping and melting the mirror surface ... (as sunrise melts the moon) puffs blown (wish!) soft as a child's eyelash, blinking me to the dawn ... a mantra, golden, warm offered up to brightening air with their hopeful prayer for my day ... wish! wish! wish for the sun! wish for a magic morn! wish! wish! abundant, the sea! all wishes azure-borne! wish! wish! swim for the deep! wish for a bounty there! each break of day as soft and sure as the pink sky my dreams were taken for their aspects ... meanderings paid for exuberance, rare I, kid's heart ever tugging chose a top-side bunk in lieu of below ... (or a cozy forecastle) first, for the sake of the sextant and a night vista beyond sacred imaginings - stars, moon ... the light-flecked wash of the 'Way itself oft' to take the breath ... but then, solely, in regard of the dolphins their wondrous wake-ups weaving into my spirit haunting the day-long and my dreams ever since ... wish! wish! wish for the sun! wish for a magic morn! wish! wish! abundant, the sea! all wishes azure-borne! wish! wish! swim for the deep! wish for a bounty there! I will sail my last dusk sky with that hopeful song in my soul, and the memory of precious Captiva mornings ... carried to me by those magical spirits, my bottlenose brothers and sisters ever ebullient and ever bright ... wish! wish! wish for the sun! wish for a magic morn! wish! wish! abundant, the sea! all wishes azure-borne! wish! wish! swim for the deep! wish for a bounty there! wish fair winds, a gentle sea and a kiss on the dawning air! that joyous song - your buoyant spirit forever ... my heart. ~ 1st Place ~ in the "Dolphins" Poetry Contest, Julie Leigh Rodeheaver, Judge & Sponsor. ~ 6th Place ~ in the "Premiere Contest Number 15" Poetry Contest, SKAT A, Judge & Sponsor.