Swimming In Joy Poem by Sue Oxley

The Pacific
More beautiful than starlight,
More peaceful than a sleeping child,
Gives up its treasures
In one bright loving day.

A turtle,
Greener than the jade sea,
A moving oval of mossy paving
Swims beneath,
And raises Its head from the foam,
Gorgon like,
Alien coldness stares
Through the blackness of its eyes.

Dolphins
Foam flecked, diamond dripping, oceans of joy
Tangle the water and the air
And in their wake
Laughing delight
Cuts glinting waves of play
Through the grey-green sea of despair.

As the sun falls
Into the rosy silvery green,
And the watered silk carpet
Shimmers with life,
One lone flying fish
A rising crescent, moonlike,
Sparkles with stars.