|
| |
Moonlight and Plankton In the Aegean
^
Moonlight and Plankton in the Aegean
Near a beach in Amorgos
Kycladic moonlight
lilting off
Aegean
waters illuminate
the breasts of two young girls and
Plankton playing off back-lit silhouettes...
Our ketch undulates according to
The laws of Poseidon
While youthful want-to-be mermaids
Frolic and scatter bio-luminescent
diamonds with every move.
Pause to breathe in the salt air of night
preparing for tomorrow when
We trek to Hozoviotissa to speak to
Monks who cannot
Admit my female passengers.
Mine are still
Young enough not to care why
My friend and I seek monastic counsel.
Not to join those men but to gather...
By contrast the young women
feel no sting from banned admittance
to the house of ancient, holy order;
Question aloud why my friend and I
would ever seek stars
Beyond the ones seen now
Painted on water
Pinned to velvet sky
Floating on the Aegean
Beautiful beings all...
Candlelight falls upon
the eyes of monks and those
of young beauty.
There is mystery to be explored in both and
As captain of my own vessel
I shall continue to search;
sail behind the eyes of
Holy mystery and divine rays of youth.
Sextant drawn
Stars, horizon lines in sight as
After tomorrow
on to Kos
Octopus and sponge drying in the Sun
Which has no measure.
^
Copyright ©
R. H. White
|
|