Short Mollusk Poems

A slow-creeping mollusk
Belonging to family
Differing from slugs
Protective shell...

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there once was a sad mollusk named earl
who always lived in constant peril
when someone swam too close by
and flipped sand in his eye
he was forced to make a danged pearl...

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rainbows pooling in the ocean
surrounded  by warm embrace of mollusk
i am beautiful,
i am glorious
again and again
touch me gentle
feel me,
exotic desire
Like an oyster
find me a pearl...

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Mollusk against ear

Hear seashore's wistful calling

Feel and see the waves.

 

 

(January 22, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Upon the earth
Mantle of flesh moves over damp sand
It has born to live, to feel, to experience,
A life by means of subsistence,
It grows its shell to protect,
It grows that shell,
It spends all the life in growing it....

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layers of nacre to protect
 grain of sand irritating itchy
iridescent gem formed
poor mollusk oyster killed
rich women pearl adorned neck
awaiting rope hidden crimes
in the wild round and 
smooth calcareous 
concretions...

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DEFEAT

Out of the waves they come.
Helmeted army of crabs
Trundle over the perfect pools 
Of starfish and periwinkle,
Murking up the sandy bottom
Of their foxholes, 
Armoured claws testing each mollusk for food,
Sidling up to my toes
In marauding hunger.
I retreat  inland,
Allowing them their beachhead....

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Sinking into the soil of his egocentric ocean
Snarled and sniveled the cephalopod mollusk
Since to be worthy of his charming prey
Sensation beaming from his passion blasting
Suspending her from being aware of drowning
Stunning to sight her lapse into squandering
Sloshing in intense sadness and deceitfulness

Written: April: 03, 2022...

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The precious pearl adorning neck
of haughty lady grand,
began as a sharp irritant,
a minute grain of sand.

The mollusk doomed to carry it
through the ensuing  years
released liquid to ease the pain.
It's been called "lady's tears".

Seldom does she remember that
poor oyster and his tasks.
She sits in reflected beauty
and in pearl's glory basks.

3/2/13...

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1990 
Owned a “Cebicheria”.
Dished out
Fresh catch of the day
Prepared on the spot.  
A customer ordered Trout,
Ate it all 
Later complained 
The fish wasn’t Trout.
Once asked Señor Torres
To buy two pounds of Octopus.
The Chef came back, 
Tricked me with one pound mollusk
Stuffed with a rock inside 
Its head to weigh up….
…These days I only cook at home....

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On the dark bottom of sea, 
under the miles of deep salt water 
one creative mollusk 
dedicated his life 
for searching  
the sackred dream 
about majestic  and precious 
pearly sunrises
somwhere far above the  sea.

And eventually 
this artist painted 
inside wall of his home 
with his golden dreams
created the most beautiful and eternal
rendition of sunrise....

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My father's bone is in his grave
My mother's bone the same
But your bones battered by the wave
Are found in children's game

They collect them for their colors
The nearest thing to pearl
A child may own; time murmurs
Against our sandy world

Mollusk shrines and cockle shells
It's all your kingdom leaves
And evening with purples spells
O heart that ever grieves.

The year is run, many gone
I shall not see again
Still will come a new dawn
Till then I keep my pain....

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