Tag: the sea
member name: Mike Ellwood
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September 13, 2008 05:00 AM EDT --
The Sunless Sea
The murmur of the sunless sea
With its dark swell and lambent foam
Is forming words enticingly
That conjure and describe for me
A stately . . .
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May 02, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
Quicksand at Night
The sand is inanimate. It has no soul.
Its speckles of silica and shell swirl
In the gritty Moon-drawn tide,
Rise and fall without pity
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July 23, 2008 04:58 AM EDT --
A Vacant Chamber
He did not tell her the truth.
He let her think the seashell's whisper . . .
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August 04, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Family Business
Gulls'eyes watch as the brothers prepare to ship their last order.
Heads, spines and guts for offal, they slit, slit and slit the flesh and . . .
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November 21, 2008 09:24 AM EST --
Baroque
Hypothesists sift, like clams, the plankton
Of ideas, ever strengthening
Their own protective carapace,
Pearlescent notions cultured
In . . .
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April 17, 2008 03:32 AM EDT --
The Capstan's Arc
"Please tell me. Did my father save my life
That day I swung upon the capstan arm?"
"Of course. Though light, my . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
Running High on Inch Strand
Earth's purest air comes tumbling over surf
To charge my blood. The endless ocean roar,
The coursing sky where flashing sea-birds soar,
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February 09, 2008 03:21 AM EST --
Trawling
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The sun has set, and, now the tide has turned,
The fleet of trawlers sails out from the port;
While from the beach the tourists have adjourned
For lobster . . .
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