Pearls~

In between a wave

and the shore

my pearls scattered

at the bow of your boat

and there

you scooped me up

didn't miss a single letter

of my shattered moon

you took my siren song

with a kiss

while Johnny Cash

dreamed dusky notes through the spray

catching leaping fish

on his baritone sorrow

 

For you I became a woman

pearls in my hair

my legs uncertain

in the shallows

my ice floe gown traded

for lace

and satin

my scales decorating a seagull's throat

in the sky

while the frost built roses

for my trail

to your life .  . . .

 

 . . . .life is precarious

and in a way

I have comfort

the feel of your dying against my breasts

a memory tattoo

that curves me into an arc

around the agony

of the hollow bride

but I have these pearls of me

you collected

and saved;

so to the bottom of the sea

I will trail you on the strand

of oyster shells

and add my tears

to the sea

 

 

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Reviews

[OT]

bravo!! I was just thinking I need to read a new Selene poem ha - descriptions to make Carroll jealous - "pearls in my hair
my legs uncertain
in the shallows
my ice floe gown traded
for lace
and satin
my scales decorating a seagull's throat" - so nice! and I love the whole of the last stanza in particular! "add my tears to the sea" !!

[Angela]

Very beautiful. What a fairytale coming straight from the ne'erworld!

[Emily B]

your words are so amazing, I felt the cold spray of the ocean, I felt the strand at the bottom of the sea, you took me there

[Jack Frost]

love it!

[lostboy]

you have a knowing that engulfs life.

[Lachenille Papillion]

beautifully sad...

[Ashesh]

how two people could be so interdependent. one lives for another so he could soothe him/her in hour of dying. laying down oneself for anothers happiness. a transended love that could only be justified in the heaven above. that is what i saw in your poem. beautiful.

[Cafe Reader]

You leave me breathless.

. . . .life is precarious

and in a way

I have comfort

the feel of your dying against my breasts

a memory tattoo

that curves me into an arc

around the agony

of the hollow bride

but I have these pearls of me

you collected

and saved;

so to the bottom of the sea

I will trail you on the strand

of oyster shells

and add my tears

to the sea


Amazing depth.

[Antonio Valentino]

Oh my god Selene, I simply don't know how everything I read of your's becomes my new favorite, as this one, surely is now!

I am going to reread this so many more times... I want it tatooed on my soul... soo gorgeous my dear friend!!

Breathtaking!
Antonio x/o

[David W Moore III]

love when you do the sea... this was fantastic, a bit sad but still wonderful. the agony of the hollow bride, trailing him on the strand, tears added to the sea...