A Mariner's Tale

A Mariner's Tale

A Poem by Scott H.
"

Rivers, lakes, oceans

"

"A Mariner's Tale"

 

There is magic happening here

That my Cancer's sensibilities

Delight in

As I am naturally drawn towards

Rivers, lakes, oceans

For what more primal force

On earth is there than

The flowing of a river,

More constant than the centuries

They carve and shape -

Their slow, gurgling laughter

Brings me to tranquility

As does the sun reflected in

The waves that crest a lake

Like sapphires made fluid,

Only to turn to a mirror of

Dark obsidian beneath the moon.

Erie, Yellowstone, Ontario,

Michigan and Pontchartrain -

I have looked for the Lady

Who lives in them all

And I have stood ankle-deep

In the North Sea,

Connected through it to the open ocean

And the lifeblood of the planet,

So vast in its entirety that

I felt a sense of finally belonging

To something greater than myself

But also a respectful fear -

For the seas, too, have their furies

And who knows what secrets

Lay in the depths of the sea

And who knows what secrets

Lay in the depths within me.

© 2008 Scott H.


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This was a beautiful piece, thank you for submitting it in my contest! :]

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