Sonnet 37 Sea Weeds Poem by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

The sea weeds mantle the ground and the rocks
Where perpetual wave symphony sings
And where graze and play all the Neptune's flocks. 3
That in each form from ancient time life brings.

Nereids always ask them for little thrills
0f food to use in their betrothal meals. 5
And with their bounty of laces and frills
They dress up to ride their dolphins and seals.

We have nutritious dulce, nori and kelp. 9
And many other ones always around
Ready to give us human beings help
As in their sap prime vitamins we found.

A pleasing Triton takes care of then all 13
To ease radiations and hunger call.
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3-. Neptune= the god of the sea identified with the Greek god
Poseidon.5-. Nereids= Any of the sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of Nereus. 9-. dulce, nori and kelp= edible sea weeds.13-. Triton= sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who lived with his father and his mother in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. He is pictured as having the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish and as carring a conch-shell trumpet. This in Greek and Latin-Mytholog. Also, later, just considered as an attendant of the sea gods.