Poem Category: Ships & Oceans

Still on its side
under Aegean waves
the shipwreck’s name.

Our sharp white hull
opening the Aegean waves …
opening the afternoon swell.

Ocean whispers …
one albatross swoops
another gliding past.

Staring landward
the lime bikini stranger
under her red straw hat.

Tropic isle
the orange dawn
pours with gulls.

Aegean storm
the greys of everything
bobbing in the harbour.

Mediterranean
ship and moon
passing the same spot.

Aegean waves
sails filled by the wind
flap all afternoon.

In still water
darkness supporting
the shark around us.

Battleship bones
emerging from the deep gloom
to chill us.