secret locket poem for the sea
My father built me a boat.
A small wooden boat
to ride on the back of the sea.
Sea roads, sea houses,
sea bridges, sea fields
breaks open like white flowers.
Break me with the rhythm of water
the tide
the tide breaks a thousand orange mornings.
The ocean records this rising, this falling.
My little boat sinks deep, deeper than
a deep sea diver.
My father’s desire for his daughter to be
a champion of the sea.
I tango with the wind in my sails.
I am devoted to sails,
catching the wind.
Foolish boat. Adorned
with a fragrant necklace of sea flowers,
here I am
waiting to hold you.
What inspires the poem to be written,
i was written into the sea:
we don’t speak of the way
the sun moves through us,
the way the sea moves through us
is silent.
Powerful shaman.
Sail to me.
I want to wear my hands the way stars do.
This, sea within the sea.
Let me enfold you.
inspired by “song to the siren” tim buckley
directions for play. press play on below link. wait only 15 seconds and press play on the second link. let both screens play for the ECHO version of song to accompany poem.