Notes About The Poem

Written for the contest 'Seahorses'.

The Latin Name for these little creatures is 'Hippocampus'.

Th Hippocampus is also a region of our brain, which is very important for processing of memory.

 

 

 

 

 

Hippocampus

Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire
Thick wet suit in cold waters weights on the belt
No load on my shoulders apart from the aqua lung
Floating balancing below the disc of the lucid moon

	Nature nurtured unburdened soul

Nearly translucent by the beam of torch in hand
A tiny Seahorse was feeding hidden by silvery rocks
Slowly nourishing its dragon like body on copepod

	Swell swished a mythical world

I have jumped a stallion over fences ridden on tide-
Flooded beaches parachuted from a plane walked down
The Grand Canyon and tasted the salt of the earth

	Experience cloaked human perceptions

Taj Mahal and the Sphinx Hanging Gardens in Babylon
The legendary horse at Troy Cave Art in the Drakensberg
Have left my breathless like Monet’s Garden on my travels

	Camels threaded eyed needles

Yet the spiky little creature called hippocampus debunked
This human misperception that miracles and surprises
Must be larger than life in this bigger higher faster world

	Seahorse and Universe are more substantial than I

18th April 2018
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Faulkner Avatar
April 24, 2018 at 2:32 PM
Sometimes it is the tiny miracles that are the most wonderous - have a good day -
Neumann Avatar
April 28, 2018 at 3:23 AM
Thnak you Michelle. I only ever so one of those beautiful creatures on my dives in Pembrokeshire. Now my wife is teaching me to look at flowers with a similar awe. Many wishes to you, Kai
Neumann Avatar
April 28, 2018 at 3:20 AM
Thanks Michelle. I have only seen on sea horse on my dives in Pembrokeshire. But my wife is teaching me to have that similar awe when looking at flowers. Many wishes, Kai
Gauthier Avatar
April 18, 2018 at 12:35 PM
A lovely delightful read, Kai.
Neumann Avatar
April 19, 2018 at 2:02 AM
Thank you Line. True story as well. Kai
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