Someone Like Me {Poetry}

Arabian Seas

I’ve seen seas

of tepid orange,

swirling with small

white blossoms.

I’ve seen oceans

of freezing black,

chattering with

luminous pieces

of ice, and I

have seen the

Arabian seas.

The gold city is lost

among the teal

of the night water.

A lone shark swims

in winter, where

the day illuminates

the barren hills of

the background,

yet does not show

the heat of day

or the grit of sand.

Long, waving arms

of soft corals

mingle with the

pomegranate

fronds of feather

stars, and speckled

gray moray eels leer

out of crevices swaying

with reds and greens.

Butterfly fish flit past

briefly in tangerine flashes,

and exuberant exotic

fish show off their vibrant tails.

Coral gardens bloom

in the cold season

and seaweed forests

flourish in summer.

The striped sea snake

glides through the indigo ripples,

and the determined turtle pads

through the crushing waves

with barnacles on her shell,

to rest on her birth ground

and lay the next generation.

Here are bountiful mangroves

and the ocean foams,

and is beautiful,

contrasting with the vibrant

reefs flooded with aqua.