(a short video taken on a boat trip off Gran Canaria using the words from my recently posted Tempests of Time poem)
waves
The Tempests of Time
a sparkle of diamonds float upon the ocean waves
each a reminder of lives lost to the tempests of time
the rolling swelling ubiquitous current of life
calling and beckoning with weeping siren wails
from the hulks of shipwrecked Viking longboats
multi masted clippers steely leviathan tankers
yet still we trust her promises of distant shores and
wonder at what might lie beyond her blue horizons
the shimmering glimmering wavering frontiers
sun kissed storm battered sunset gilded
each flash of light brightens the momentary eye
awareness glimmers in the fractal curve of a glance
snatched seconds break over fatal decisions made as
gaping mouths retch for the last pockets of precious air
a great portent of gushing waters salt brine our tombs
bubbles of hope molecules of flashing faces on
every sparkling diamond reflecting every perished soul
the memories of mankind captured by the tempests of time.
(so I am linking on from my previous poem and developing the theme of drowning using the image of the glinting sun on the surface of the sea – each flash of diamond light representing a lost soul).