Surge

The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Relentlessly must follow
one surging wave another
amid the endless sea

A liquid mountain range
crowned by a whitecapped snow
from heaving rage to waning foam

Behind this wall: a veil
unto horizon's haze ̶
blue reign, infinite darkness
no land for sailor's gaze

Seafarer, lift your wings
toward the seagull's cry!
On white dream's billowed sail
toward the cloudy height!

Rest 'neath her shining star
upon her bloom-strewn lake
cradled inside
her moonlit boat
anchored in timeless season.


(for M.)