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Sea Poetry
by trish Saturday, Jan 19 2013, 8:40am
international / poetry / post

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i’ve seen the sea
punctuated by dolphins,
swirled, sliced and striated
under and above the water,
the grammar of dolphins.

few human poets could hope to match
the lyricism of dolphins
cutting through their medium,
writing their kinetic verse.

the problem is the medium -
water retains naught
for any length of time,
how many masterpieces to shame Byron
Yeats and Coleridge have been written
and lost to the transient blue?

yet dolphins have no regrets
they busy themselves
writing new lyric verse
in the fluid expanse.

it is very fortunate for humans
that water refuses lasting impressions
otherwise dolphins might rest on their
literary laurels and create academies
of learning to appreciate the past
while overlooking the scintillating
present.


 
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