The Ocean

The ocean is a brimming bountiful beauty, of whales, porpoises, dolphins, seahorses, fish, seabirds, plankton, algae, sparkling brine of emerald and blue. Her dead are entombed in her eternal body, she rises in the merciless storms, with waves that toss many craft. Yet, she also lies smoothly as a sleeping kitten, mariner's timeless sea chanties in the winds. She is envious of the sailor's love for mermaids, as she calls them from ports with her lure. She's undiscovered in some ways, oceanographers still learning. She must not be overharvested, she needs to replenish her strength. Always wondrous and courted by the mystique of the moon, warm and bright in the tropical sun, colder in the North's barren heart. The great deep- her legend in literature, art, and song. ~