Poetic Bloomings - Aquatic Creatures

July 23rd – If  Sandy and Danny taught us anything in “Grease”, it’s that romance can blossom at the beach. Write a romantic/love poem that finds its origin at the seashore!

 Music, played by rock star wannabes, blaring at the Pavilion , sticky summer nights cooled by a breeze off the ocean and walking hand in hand with a Frankie Avalon stand-in, ahh… hormonal love.[not necessarily a true to life account : ) ]

                         Love Besmirched

Poets love to write of love. What is love?
Wild nights, wild nights, ecstasy and desire
Mouths that cling, lean bodies of heat, afire
With animal lust. Hormones just won’t quit.
Poets love to rave of love. What is love?
Beer and rock music, June nights! Youth’s ardor
Riding inferno’s fires, higher, higher
Till firestorms of desire are spent. Unlit.
This is love? This is all? Oh, heart bereft,
Oh, rash thought. Any fool can fall in sex.
It is more, much more than this. Love’s what’s left
Of glowing coals, smoldering in each breast,
Contented as a cat’s purr. Does this vex?
Think, then, how things that touch your soul are best.

July 22nd – Sadly, sometimes the shoreline is pocked with dead fish or gulls stinking up the joint. Give them back their lives and write about any aquatic creature that could be seen/found in these waters. Write about the one that got away… or the one you threw back! Go on an underwater adventure aboard your Yellow Submarine and visit an Octopus’ Garden.

             Darn You “Jaws”

The ocean looks calm and serene

as I lay on the sand sun-screened
no swimming for me
there’s sharks in the sea
they're hungry man eating machines.

        Music of the Deep

Whale,

giant
of the sea.
Sing your strange song
marvelous virtuoso of the deep.