Joseph Demarco Poet Free verse

Ode To the Duckdive

Throwing gravity aside
this is the magical enchantment
of the duck dive
Surfer God
Changing atmospheres
From liquid to gas
Body reborn
euphoric in the presence of eminent danger
Some how defying nature’s authority
Against gravitational forces
Pulling
Ripping
Collapsing
Calling me
to that bone yard reef
That graveyard of epoxy and resin
Where the tombstones are surfboards broken in half
I become death’s passenger
Floating towards the light
Rays of angels surround me
as this miraculous extension of me
This powerful staff
propels me through Hades
The underworld holds me back
The water demons grab hold of my legs
while my surfboard carries me
into the sunlight
I have survived
For the time being
Now paddle like mad
Cause here comes the sets!!!

Excerpt from:
Nightmarchers
By: Joseph DeMarco

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Denis Joe January 1, 2009 at 5:18 AM I like this Joseph. the feel of the narrative captures the theme really well maintaining that continuity that reader expects from a poem that is not broken up into stanzas. I like how the poem ducks in and out of many dimensions: the material world; the natural world and the metaphysical world. And it maintains its unity.