Indian Ocean Poem by Bose Perumal

INDIAN OCEAN
WARM AND TEMPERATE WATERS;
DEEP BLUE BILLOWS OF WAVES
EBB AND EDDIE OF TIDY CURRENT
KEEPS IN ITS DEPTH WEALTH UNKNOWN.

EQUATOR DIVIDES ACROSS YOUR SLIMY STREAM
THE WEST WIND HOWLS AND SCREAMS,
THE OCCIDENT SHIPS AND THE ORIENT YACHTS
PLIED ALONG THE WARMER CURRENT AND WIND.

YOU HAVE BEEN THE BEDLAM OF FORLORN HISTORY
THE LEMURIAN SAGA SANK DEEP BENEATH
YOUR FURY SWALLOWED THE ANCIENT GLOR,
CAPE-COMARIN BREATHS IN THE GENTLE BREEZE.

FAR BEYOND IS THE FREEZING POLE
WHERE LIGHT IS BLEAK AND LIFE IS IN STREAKS
THE STRANGEST LAND OF ICY FOAM AND MIST
OCEAN OF TRANSIENCE AND BRILLIANT VIBRANCE

THE NIGHT ABOVE IS A MANTLE OF SPARKLING STARS
THE MOON SWIMS ACROSS YOUR SWIRLING WAVES.