Fair-minded whale playground, compass dismisses
Ceylon sapphire zero horizon echo orchestral chamber
Forge rolling bow voyages of uncharted distance
Cut water instant recovery, oily onyx giants' undulations
Gleefully refuse gravity's hard ground insistence
Halloween door creak elaborate speak, torso of paisley
Gyrations ridicule keel knife edge flow resistance
Harried sails flap before collapse with human impatience
Dugongs admonish monolithic ships gritty missions
Adventure crave creatures flank vessels for playful races
Delight in the chase, never capture small victims
Allure fluid, serene serenades resonate clarinet cadence
October 31st
Below earth, streams release the arteries
of the undersea teeming with precious
abalone, granite and shells,
as a roulette of lotus defies gravity
soaking on the chlorine of a wind
only piles of sand can bestow…
and gentle the wavelets murmuring
hymns of serenity , somewhat delicate
as ocean mouth is to fish lips in the moist pulse
of swelling spaces for wooden fleets
to beckon the blue.
Like so, guardian of water observes the cruise
of a ship rustling a masthead…
intrusive vessels are aliens
to the underworld: greedy eyes, black hands
that rake mothers of pearl and babes of dolphins.
Fierce dugongs roll along, shaking the basement
of hunters’ boats on inlets
to pound doors of Neptune’s bed,
reflecting mirrors of an island scented
with coconut and tresses of women
bathing along coasts of such innocent gulfs.
Below earth, a divide between friends and foes
is honored; that beyond words,
a sea keeper rises to acknowledge
the kindness of strangers,
if they are kind enough to respect the gift of privacy.
10/2/2015
Chase Trevi's Contest:
Open Sea - Sailing, Creatures, Treasures
Hey you out there I'm here, but I'll sure let you dream
All you big boy burly sailors, I'll allure to your unseen
Even going back to my ancestors, away back, down Assyria way
Our goddess our love, Atargatis, became doomed by your say
To escape you, you men, who desired to reap your want
Why should she internally repent, to the depths, a Mermaid now sent
And now through your aeon of time, perilous events we've now shared
If us Mermaids had never have existed, you'd probably say you'd been spared
Even through the ages innocent animals have been accused
Is it your typical human we, it doesn't matter who's abused
Dugongs, Manatee's are beautiful, creatures of whom we've swam
Remember, you've never been the elite, ever since we all began
Hey, let me say, to your National Ocean Service, what makes you think you know
When we've been around so much longer than you, who says we have to show?
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