Sapphire Dolphins and Aubergine Skies (The Shore of Three Oceans)

Sapphire Dolphins and Aubergine Skies (The Shore of Three Oceans)

A Story by Maxinne Marie
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Perhaps mythical creatures really do exist — only beyond our mortality, beyond our dreams. Maybe they exist as "souls" — and only when we become souls can we exist with them.

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The sun was slowly drowning itself into the deep, leaving me in a soliloquy once again. The wind swept through my hair as I gazed at the purple waters calmly colliding with the shore of three oceans, where a timeless memory echoes quietly...

 

You pulled me by the hand and held my waist, your body inclined towards mine. In a breath of a moment, I was poisoned by your venomous kiss, leaving me frozen underneath the cloudburst that drove the sea mad - the water snaked through the sand in cadence with the song of the thunder.

 

I was shivering in your frosty presence, drenched in the cascades of the somber clouds. And you haunted me with what I came to realize as our last embrace.

 

Amid the ardor we felt, we were both desolate. And nature felt our misery as told by the outraging poetry of the sky and the sea.

 

Before long, the great yellow ball of fire arose from the horizon, illuminating the shore of three oceans with its ardent beams.

 

The sapphire dolphins danced under the vast waters and through the salty midair. They had come to bring you back home. You are a creature of the sea, and you can not ever belong with me, my love, my prince.

 

You left, but the touch of your hand lingered on in my skin. I watched you descend into the depths as cold crystals fell from my eyes, blurring my vision of that fateful parting.

 

And from then on, I had told myself that you shall forever be a distant dream that took flight with the creatures of the depths. I urged myself to believe that you had always been unreal, mythical prince of the oceans, only a silent reverie isolated from the reach of an entity of the earth.

 

...I watched the dolphins play in the aubergine skies distortedly reflected on the serenity of the waves, colliding with the shore of three oceans. Suddenly, I felt a familiar frosty presence. I closed my eyes as I was poisoned by a soul-freezing kiss... His Highness still haunted me with his embrace.

 

I opened my eyes. A hundred eons it has been since I became the remnant of the soul of an earthen maiden that lived far beyond the dream of a dream. Realizing what I have become, knowing it was impossible to die again, I walked into the waters, dived with the dolphins and creatures that belonged to the love of my lonesome heart. As I flew through the water, a transformation took place without my knowing it. I was only a soul as I embraced the sea. Yet now that I am within the three oceans, no longer on their shore, I became a creature again, this time, one that belonged to the sea.

 

I kept on swimming through a world no mortal had ever lived in, and I saw a tower of light where merpeople played.

 

In the distance, I saw the prince. A hundred eons he had waited for me.

 

 

Written July 25, 2007 @ 11:00 PM © Maxinne Marie

 

© 2014 Maxinne Marie


Author's Note

Maxinne Marie
Written for a photo challenge, but I've been so inspired lately that I came up with such an imagination when I saw that picture.

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"Realizing what I have become, knowing it was impossible to die again. I walked into the waters and dived with the dolphins and creatures that belonged to the love of my lonesome heart." -- work on technical strata. the pausing ( by the use of comma..or change it into ; ) notice i change just a bit of it. never mind if im wrong. feel free to ignore btw. hehe


".....distortedly reflected on the serenity of the waves" - i like the ironical speech figures, i presume it is not accidental to visualize a waving scheme as peaceful... hehe.. but presuming it is very provocative measure to write with.


over-all.. an outstanding piece.. i see this piece as a very wide in range if you to think the picture alone was the basis for it. exceptional imagination should i say. great. i would rather say youre a 'prose' with the mind.

Posted 17 Years Ago


6 of 6 people found this review constructive.




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"a timeless memory echoes quietly�" and after that, words are italicized, that part is the memory the narrator speaks about. At the end of the recalling the memory, she was back to reality, to what she was doing there, and experienced something unusual.

Posted 17 Years Ago


4 of 4 people found this review constructive.

I liked the imagery that you created at the start. Interesting way of describing thunder, as a song, it created a new picture in my head. I also like the way you described tears.
But, I have to confess, from there on in you lost me a little bit. Maybe bacause I had a particular mainstream idea in my head of what I was seeing, the parting couple on the beach? For me it just got a bit muddled and confusing. I felt a little disapointed because of such a strong start.

Posted 17 Years Ago


4 of 5 people found this review constructive.

Thanks RC. (Why are you online when we have quizzes in our Nursing subjects tomorrow? LOL. I haven't finished the Critical Thinking paper yet, mangopya lang ko ah, harhar!)

Can't change it, though, coz it'll be a fragment if I edit it into "Realizing what I have become, knowing it was impossible to die again." Or in other ways I thought of, I fear the sentence would be incomplete and not express the thought of the narrator diving in there because she was already dead. Hehe ^_^ But, I have a little something to work on thanks to your pointing out. It lacks an "and" in the "I walked into the waters, dived with the dolphins" part. Thanks again! =]

Posted 17 Years Ago


4 of 4 people found this review constructive.

"Realizing what I have become, knowing it was impossible to die again. I walked into the waters and dived with the dolphins and creatures that belonged to the love of my lonesome heart." -- work on technical strata. the pausing ( by the use of comma..or change it into ; ) notice i change just a bit of it. never mind if im wrong. feel free to ignore btw. hehe


".....distortedly reflected on the serenity of the waves" - i like the ironical speech figures, i presume it is not accidental to visualize a waving scheme as peaceful... hehe.. but presuming it is very provocative measure to write with.


over-all.. an outstanding piece.. i see this piece as a very wide in range if you to think the picture alone was the basis for it. exceptional imagination should i say. great. i would rather say youre a 'prose' with the mind.

Posted 17 Years Ago


6 of 6 people found this review constructive.


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Maxinne Marie
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Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines



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The Flightless Angel Maxinne Marie Belo Sentina. Portrait photographer, beauty/fashion blogger, aspiring musical theatre singer, poet, mermaid, RN. Graduated from West Visayas State University. Loves.. more..

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