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Sea Poem
A treasure of time - wide canvas of the sea
Where life was formed from silver gills and a snail’s cry
A universe baptized by fleets of stars
And the ocean of time
With its relentless lament
Carried by seabirds with seashell wings
Skimming across watery crescents
To follow northern lights to tomorrow
And come back to yesterday
Deep down blink ocean eyes that saw Noah’s rainbow
Fall into the breathing bubbles of life
And saw jellyfish with opaque tails and ethereal umbrellas
Sinking to nocturnal depths
Where swim fish with sword teeth
To the deepest dark where Neptune’s children
Roll about on an ocean floor
Among Atlantis bangles
And gold bars encrusted with algae
Silent, still, spectral, ocean eyes
That see to the depths of white-ice sands
Where wooden maidens with water-logged breasts
Broke loose from a ship’s bow
And sunk to the decades of a rusted anchor
Holding time to the ocean floor
Powerful oracle; fathomless ocean born after Genesis
But before Vesuvius wore a crown of Sargasso pearls
In nets webbed across waters
Time was caught and carried
To scorched sands of other shores
Where the sun closes purple eyelids on twilight
And opens them to melancholy nights
And to the night mariners who follow
Misty plumes of moonlight
Where wanders the gypsy moon
by Susan Dale
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