Poem: 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.

But none

Will compare

To my dear Arabian seas.

The gold city is lost amongst the teal

Of the night water.

A lone shark swims in winter,

Where the day illuminates the barren hills of the background

But does not show the heat of day or the grit of sand.

Long, waving arms of soft corals

Mingle with pomegranate fronds of feather stars

And speckled-gray moray eels leer

Out of crevices swaying with reds and greens.

Butterflyfish flit past briefly in tangerine flashes,

And exuberant exotic fishes 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.