Friday, February 6, 2009

Turquoise and Viridian


Turquoise and Viridian, limpid water sleeping in the shallows
Myriads of tiny life-forms, multicoloured, trace mosaics on the stones
Seaweed softly drifts with the ebb and flow, like a young girl’s hair
The sunlight catches the ripples, sending swathes of gold
To catch the eye; bounty from Neptune’s treasure chest
Warm and languorous the gentle-whispered, soft young voice
Of the sea’s shallows, a singing-siren melody lures the innocent.
The giant rocks like sentinels rise above the lazy, contented sea
Stirring drowsily to and fro under the endless azure skies
The soft breeze dances a slow waltz over the surface
Kissing little wavelets as they play in the laughing shallows
Nothing spoils the perfection of the moment and I
Awestruck by such beauty hardly heed the warning cries
Of seagulls swirling overhead denouncing deception
The soft sea will hold me in her gentle warm embrace And I shall be her lover for this moment, in this place

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