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The Smell of Deep Sea Life

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The octopus and the octopi
the goosy and the goosi
the hibiscus and the hibisci
do not compare to the deep sea wonders
that we find so utterly repulsi…


 


No graceful lines of the spiral shell
no beautiful hues of the crystal quartz
no bursting lights of the meteor

                                      over a desert sky;
yet for eons before us, in the recesses of time
perennially and successfully attracting new mates;

so what glories of the future for you may await?

 

 

 Echoes and reflections are your world.
 What shivering emotions dwell in your hearts?
 Swimming through the vacuous seas of life
 surrounding your reason for being in the night
 when darting in unending sideways flights
 that teeter on the edge of your void
          among the deep sea tides 

 what wiles do you there employ?

 

 

Outlandish and bizarre by our over-land standards
like offbeat celebrities in an odd film fest    

      we see you but we can’t fathom you yet
we find you in the greatest ocean depths
suspended farther from heaven then hell
your home, the dark places of the earth
where you dance your survival in the blank, murky jel...

 

 

   A sensitive monster you are, no doubt
   feeding off the ocean energies
   just beyond our grasp, yet within our reach
   no doubt playing your ballads as we sleep...

 

 

OK, perhaps no voices to sing such a phrase
and no soft-lit photo shoots to advertise your wares
but since the carefree abandon of your youthful run
you paint a self-portrait of lives so rare
    in maybe a greater intensity than our own
with a degree of warmth much like that of the sun’s...

 

 

 You’re born, you live, you breed, you die,
 your bones now scattered under a barren sea-sky
 your string of love letters inscribed in the brine
 giving this reigning species a moment of respite
   as it wonder at your mysteries

 relinquishing upon you their revelries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author notes

........................portions derived from the ever poetic comments of Bohb.

Main photo- the female angler fish with the smaller parasite male attached.
Side Photos, top to bottom- another angler fish, an evermanella, a vipor fish, another angler.
Written May 16th, 2005

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  • suseann
    May 27, 2005
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    Leave it to you to precieve beauty even in such unattractive creatures as these! While I'm sure they are alluring to each other.Really ugly to us! Fantastic write! I loved your descriptive ability in this!Great job.~~Suseann


  • rendezvous
    May 21, 2005
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    This was outstanding & undoubtedly unique. Kudos to you on this out-of-the-ordinary poem. Haha.
    Thanks for the killer write.
    ~jen (rendezvous)


  • B2oH
    May 17, 2005
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    LOL...goosi....one of my favorite words. Seems that one or more goose should be a goosi...based on octopi.

    I think this is the best one (and actually one of the best you've written)-- this contains an element of 'the edge' -- a darker season upon the mind with currents running deeply below the placid waters....and depths we can only fathom in reflective glare.

    Superbly written -- I like this piece VERY much. You've managed to capture something elusive here.


  • Touchof1der silver member
    May 16, 2005
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    Bohb is certainly a talent in and of himself, isn't he? I love to visit the Monterey Aquarium. I am as bad as any child for becoming glued to the scenes before me. You background images took me right there, which made this piece an added pleasure for me.
    ♥ Your Intern