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" !!

[Princeps Angelus Mors]

beautiful

[.]

These beautiful images you create...jump off the page and come alive..I like this gentle style..it's perfectly put together..

[Rossen]

Gorgeous, miss her already a tail flip and she is gone.
So I sit reading again and again~ keeping this pearl in my pocket.

Your pearlessence captured and released Selene ~
Rossen

[dreaming dame]

Loved it!

[Martin Cosgrove]

Thank you for sharing.

[Pax Analog]

The paradox of spiritual grace through surrender. A post-ninja saintly script.

You continue to grow in multidimensional beauty.

I get a sense of fractal eddies, the genius of impromptu inevitability -- misted in a roseate grail heart.

[Adelia Alighieri]

How great is this? This couldn't have been better, such a genuine style. Hats off!

[Moonrose]

This was genius, and lovely :) I can't really say anything new about this, as everyone else has beat me to the punch, but I really did enjoy this and I agree wholeheartedly with what everyone has said. Thank you for sharing this sweet, melancholy pearl!

[Emily]

What an amazing poem,especially one released on my birthday.:)
. . . .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
Simply beautiful.