Tag: ocean
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The Settling of Ogygia
Tide’s navel stirred as Hera’s rage at Zeus’ infidelity Thirty days pacing decks scarce enduring four abreast Until palm’d nest God’s lambent dove alights, wave-breasting Halcyon Effulgent battalions engaging a cloud Actium, trining lightning cracking Like bones ensconced in the fierce wrestling holds of Kleostratos Cackling sisters of world-weighted Atlas, themselves ballasted Lashed to sails…
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World Ocean Day
It’s world ocean day A world of motion Really we are a swaying water planet We are but risen skeins of sunken Atlantis This borrowed land, even its sand belongs to the seas Poseidon considers land a disease It is pleasing to him that his domain is earth’s surcease Tsunamis crease into apocalyptic things easily …
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Friend to a King
No such thing as a friend to a king To be friend to a king is to be friend to a lion They may lie on you, ply you with affections, rare attentions But they will never rely on you. You might die confused Hauled from chambers accused of crimes inventions of Meaner minds, such…
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Ocean Waiting
Tossed fore aft in transit, carried from quays Like keys of coke on Florida’s mangrove coasts Assure the boss it’ll be OK Bill a Jay so I don’t go mad On the bay knowing how Basanio felt But know exactly why I’m sad Sitting on the dock of the bay, all day Awaiting my payday,…
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Eternal Beach
The rocks porous as the future they are assured to reside in; no such prizes before the eyes of mortals White as the hem of the foldless and faultless kalasiris of sisterwife to Osiris gullwinged beetless Isis Green as languedoc his liegely skin, his leagues are Elysian before the phrase is cradled Where his brain…
Alchemisland 