from agony to rapture

by jan oskar hansen. - Scorpio

From Agony to Rapture


Rising tide the sand was damp 
by the winter shore, sea dark
and I feared sharks. Sea-gulls 
circled overhead waited to eat
my eyes when I looked up and 
cried my sorrow to the night.
Merry mermaids, dressed in
sealskin coats, sat on rocks busy 
knitting a sea weed skirt for
king Neptune. "Look, a crying 
old man, not a handsome prince ".
Walked and walked through a
landscape of grazing goats till
I came to a wooded gate where
a beautiful white mare neighed.
I opened the gate and the horse,
flew towards shore, harmonised 
into a rolling mist, where dawn 
glanced and my heart brimmed 
with the joy of being a witness 
to the birth of a new beginning.
Birth sign: Scorpio
Date created: 2001-01-05 07:37:25
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:43:18
Poem ID: 59400

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