White Siren Song
There I stand Rocking and swaying with the tide. I look down into the blue green sea White foam extends past the boat. The constant splash and hum of the motor fills my ears, Leaving the distant voices far behind me as their bodies stand right next to me. The smell of salt etches a smile on my face, Like a warmth welcoming me home. I wonder what creatures are beneath the watery abyss, Waiting t...
Save the Oceans
How far can the ocean spread? It goes much farther than just the horizon. It must be miles and miles of salty water. I wonder how many secrets it hides in the midnight zone. There are many fascinating creatures that lurk in the icy depths. Animals big and small find homes In the deep and dark mysteries of the sea. Perhaps one day we'll find them all. Like a sunken pirate ship With a chest full ...
Dredging
It is where I go in search of quiet A stillness buried in the crosshatch of crashing layers A peace of unknown depthsA neverending better yet It moves- and I with it Fluid in our forming A thousand years and these melting movements Could move me to corrosion It leaves its marks Salt on the tongue Another, driftwood, memory Of all I've never done And I know we shall return Meeting on some far-of...
Selkies
Sea creatures, refugees fleeing landPerch and flail, flipper and finWe are poised.Water, we are all water, makes usWhole. It is not our place Women walk the earth, yetThis is how we heal, our flowing fortitude. Slick-skinned and moistening, aqueousNot aquatic, our lips bruise Flesh to wine. Will life always be this precarious Towered with home and work, child and mind? Pedestaled as madonnaOr f...
The Tsunami
I stand alone on a beacha vast, barren, sandy beachwith toes in dirt and gritsits between my teethI'll grind them down to pieces As I wait, alone, on this parisidal parasitic beach. There's salt on my tonguebut I cannot taste.There is a howling, screeching windcantering alongbut I am deaf.There is the smell of brackish poolssweet and sour but I can't inhale it.There is sand crawling between my ...
Kayleigh Fryer (hobbitholes) - The Sea
SURRENDERSometimes all you needIs a deep breath.Before the icy watersSnatch away your feelings.Sometimes that airJust isn't enough.Frantically searchingFor the surface above.Sometimes the cool embraceIs all you need.Surrendering in bliss,To the unexplored depths.
A writer in the sun
Moon and starscarved in on an islandwashed awayby the morning tidedrawn towards the endless; imagination of a writer in the sunWhat might have been last night, my dear,while christ had let us sleep?All described in mindless nesciencefocused on the law of the scienceof natureIt is a shamethat what you seeis only whatwe knowtrace your cheekalong that littlelet it hang you up upon the cross abovel...
Tale of the dying sea
heat waves crash ferociously,beach caves, here I am!amongst all grains of sand,sacrificing to the glow.Make me glow like you!When I get homeall of my friends are gonna be there,peering at my shining skinof bronze andcrystals glittering,that the sea has stuck upon it andingrained within.An armor and a bruisewe sink into one anotherlike water fills up the brittle land.I invade it with my naked fe...