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The Selkie

Contributed by richard2 on Sunday, 6th April 2014 @ 09:43:21 AM in AEST
Topic: fantasy



The Selkie

The white gulls traced their way
Among the wave wracked lines
Of deserted shell and seaweed kelp,
There she climbed from the tide
Onto my hermit beach,
Where she left her sealskin self
Hidden among the rocks.

Her selkie tracks climbed upward
To the bluff
Where in my hut of shipwreck plank
And mermaid drift
she met me,
full of words of beauty and desire.

For a shadowed night,
She took my arms, only to return
In the morning wind
To her skin of damsel brown
To dance on sea wave lace
And swim my love away




Copyright © richard2 ... [ 2014-04-06 09:43:21]
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Re: The Selkie (User Rating: 1 )
by EveAlone on Sunday, 6th April 2014 @ 01:33:22 PM AEST
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This poem is beautiful. I don't really know what to say about it. It paints such beauty in my mind, yet still there is something in it, that I can't grasp. I just keep reading and reading and it doesn't lose it's beauty or allure. Well, done my friend, well done.


Re: The Selkie (User Rating: 1 )
by hauntedscorp on Tuesday, 8th April 2014 @ 09:01:31 AM AEST
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Incredible, descriptive imagery... Just, beautiful! Your Grandmother must have been one special lady for such a lovely tribute.


Well done.



~Scorp


Re: The Selkie (User Rating: 1 )
by ladyfawn on Monday, 28th April 2014 @ 08:01:04 PM AEST
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this is enchantingly beautiful!

hugs n' love nessa


Re: The Selkie (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Friday, 6th June 2014 @ 06:25:10 AM AEST
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Such are human/selkie encounters: beautiful but brief.
A thoroughly enchanting tribute to your great granmother.




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