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Sea Party
sweet sparkles of charm
minnows swerve
shoal quick
through gossip soft and sneaky
as anemone fronds.
crude next
within obscene jaws
wide as a sperm whale
or defensive as crab shell
over wet martinis
on the rocks.
sooner or later
tentacles feast on claws
cracking their sarcasm
to blend it with roe
or salmon pâté.
whatever it was,
blame the moon
as the night twists
to crowd out surface,
shifting into shadows.
hints of wolf eel
and shark.
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9/21/25 ... eds ... don't like to edit older poems but sometimes I gamble)
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Folks as bad? No. They're even worse. But I'm not worse and you're an owl (so you're already excused). But I like owls. They are wise. Or so it was written in my ABC book: O is for Owl a wise bird.
ReplyDeleteBest of bardic,
gwilym
I have a working hypothesis that the answers to all worthy questions are presented quite obviously in children's books somewhere.
ReplyDeleteDr. Suess's "The Lorax" being a prime example.
Unfortunately, I am not one of those evolutionarily successful owls, whose lineage dates back 65 million years. Hence, the "Wise" appellation doesn't apply to me.