Deep Sea Diving Poem by DM W

O the measured flood of surf;
The cosmic rhym of tides!
The world rolls like a pearl
Through gulleys in the mind's eye.

The wind reports on a wreck'
Breaking upon a reef.
Its hull is dislodged and dragged
Over a coral steeple.

Its sunken cabins are sequined
By luminous shoals of silver fish.
That I can only describe
As resembling aquatic butterflies!

A myriad of shells are filched
From watery caves by divers
Amidst mutli coloured pockets of the sea.
O observe its brilliant fauna and vermillion
And saffron praires of weeds!

The deep sea diver extracts molluscs
From shells with corkscrew twist of knife.
Many times he has listened to the great roar
Of the sea from the vast deeps of the shell's insides.

The waves unroll a white hem of lace
On the soft pure sands.
The sapphire water discloses
A sea floor of zebra stripes.

A nervous cloud of pink fish
Takes off into deeper water.
Observe a heap of ink black pebbles
And the sanded drag of smoke.
Observe the blue dazzle of light above.
O what dreams this undersea world evokes!