I commit my thoughts to the ocean,

Magnificent, protean

Mysterious, beyond my gaze

Free, without emotion.

 

Silent wild and thunderous

Cavernous and gaping,

Still beneath a placid haze,

Wondrous and knowing.

 

Above a gaping horizon

Wide clouds hang overweight

And gather for the union,

Before the plunge, inflate.

 

At the coast, ad infinitum

Insentient objects glint

In pools where palls are waiting

For the tidal sprint.

 

A curlew dips, a darting shrimp

Flicks its tail and hides,

Beneath the silt and sediment

Consuming worlds collide.

 

The gull with blameless hunger

Stalks above the buried lug,

A bottle gathers sand and traps

A frantic water-bug.

 

The sea grass globes encase, embrace

A cast out finished straw,

The mindless Mephistopheles

Plastic haunts the shore.