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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Curlews cry, an Aegean sky: a boat
lifts and falls. The heat of noon, a lethargic
gloom, she's tracked with light this star-struck night.

Moon-shadows cast, it's cool at last, this sweep
and swell, this road to hell. The ship's becalmed
with false alarms, this attic night of bone-white light:
no palimpest, no Grecian zest.

A sapphic wind balloons the moon, fans the fog's
p...

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seapenumbralightstar-struck

30 Steps

 

The city is drenched in gold tonight

The sea is silver, like my temples

My hands feel older now than ever

But my mind and my grip is so much surer

Than back when I was younger;

 

I've run from love when it got tough

My hair was bleached in boiling light

I helped as many people as I could

Still, my thoughts were darkened in the wilderness

Felt alone in crowds of s...

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Birthdaysgrowing oldergrowing-upseaturning 30

The Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sea presses

the shoreline.

 

I listen to

the languid waves

sweep onto the shore.

The water flows softly.

This is a sound that I love.

 

The birds glide

like a dream on the water.

With full bellies they

fly off to their

homes and babies.

 

The bright...

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peacecalmSea

One with the Storm and new sea themed ebook link

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/force-of-the-blue/18949130 my new sea themed ebook check it out

One with the Storm

The battered fishing boat sets out in the storm.

The crew knows that something is wrong and that someone will die.

As they pass the coast the storm savagely worsens.

Through the rain a small figure is seen atop the cliff.

All in white, a ...

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seadeathcrewgirlfishing boatstormnew ebook linksea themed poems

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