Prompt 76: Ocean

Thanks to Sweetest in the Gale (formerly Fledling Poet) for this week's prompt, ocean, and for the poem and image below that get us started this week.

MERMAID

There lies an ocean inside my chest
A cosmic rolling of the tides
Each swell of breath a rhythmic crest
And in this place a mermaid presides
She skims atop my wrecks and treasures
Where gold coins wink and beckon
And grains of wisdom nestle
In oystered pearls that glisten
Where heartaches fuse to coral
Stinging plankton with their grief
While wild waves curl with churning thoughts
Then lap on shimmering sands to sleep
And the stars beam down
At the commotion, and seagulls
Hover with salt-kissed wings
Swooping with a listening ear
To hear her raw notes as she sings
She’s tossed, and rocked, and cradled
And tumbled endlessly
My precarious, sensitive mermaid
In the depths of my vast blue sea.

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