Sea Muse Poems

RED SEA

At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
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My mind sets in motion, 
words that will come alive.  
Creativity needs to be added, 
then mix imagination with creativity. 

 
Coming alive within...

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Oh to be laying on a bed
Of soft feathery fern
To rest my weary head
Not much left to learn

Except to look at the ceiling
There above the...

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slowly, softly
he paints each 

phalanx,
gently

a pale shade
of nude pink

the shade of 
opening 

conch shell 
silky inner lipped

later, 
not much later,

he slips them 
into his hands

perfectly...

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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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"Charms"

Just when you think 
you’ve worked it all out
the light splits it all apart

a million leagues 
into her 
you dive, want or not

into her ocean
there...

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Khai Nai island off Phuket 
glistens with pristine sand
celebrating its uniqueness 
wherever the sea kisses land

bigger islands around envy
as to why it’s the favoured one
perhaps...

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His eyes seem to tell her:
O not so wrapped in winter,
Be a bit bolder, 

And in rains wetter,
Beauty’s for the beholder,
Pray, do not deter,

Why I...

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it’s an endless void of emptiness
  in a starkness filled with play
it’s a synonym of every dream
  in an antonym yet to try

it’s...

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"The Magnus Effect"

A whole life in a deck of cards
dealt across the table
in front of the brutally dismissive,
the fortunes of the war worn read
translated glamorously...

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Ocean drowns its envy, 
in saury allure—
sans fin, seize (an)other....

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The serenading stream leaps in swirling rapture
in the dancing shadows of the swaying trees.
The diamond dew drops draping the glinting grass tips
lace lilting lattice on...

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"The Sea Inside Me"

The sea inside me, 
hides a Kraken 
in its depths, 
The Fathomless
lives there beside it,
some strange god
feeding on my 
minnow soul

I am...

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"Fireflies and Sea Poppies" 

glow up 
a short life 
buzzing by 
lighting up the 
shoreline

caves 
they're heading for
silent crowded sanctuary
stick fast like glow worms
fire lit...

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When will I not love you
shall there be a distant flame
flickering beyond the warmth of 
an Indian summer's sultry breeze

When will I not love you...

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