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Broken Cable

January 18, 2023Azores, beauty, Data Networks, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, Data Cable, Data Networks, poem, poetry, published poem, science poetry, TelecommunicationsThe Cheesesellers Wife

In the middle of the bright Atlantic
Floating on the swell between island volcanoes
Beneath reflective surface tension
Silvered gas bubbles catch the light
And, across the issuing rift
A long snake of data cable
Broken sheared twisted

As the gas breaks the surface
We hear voices
Blogs bubbling to the top
Instructions to buy or sell
A thousand tiny voices
Sparkling in the sunshine
Several parrot fish swim by
Next day when snorkelling
I fancy I hear fish blogging

This poem was first published by the wonderful Helen Ivory on Ink, Sweat and Tears: http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=12491

The Azores

December 17, 2022Azores, beauty, nature, poem, Poetryazores, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Nine glorious islands
girdled by ocean

perched on basalt flaws
holes in the world wall

where heat seeps up
and magma roils underneath

makes rock and homes shudder

Thinking of the Azores at present, where, although it is stormy and the central group of islands are experiencing many mini-quakes, it’s a balmy 20C!

Pico

November 5, 2022Azores, beauty, nature, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, Life, nature, Pico, poem, poetry, volcanoThe Cheesesellers Wife

Dawn breaks the sky
raw light floods island & ocean
All birdsong ceases for just the moment
when day is painted over night
colour returns to us
a breeze slowly lifts
the sun soars, reaching for this speck of land
in ocean immensity

Pico, veiled in high cloud
crenulated by sister cones
looms soft purple & charcoal across the strait
diva of the skies, demanding attention
holding the gaze
stately hot tempered grand dame
always beautiful, subtly threatening

Another poem about the Azores, I must return soon……

Boundless

September 14, 2022Azores, Life, nature, poem, Poetryazores, Life, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

The taut freedom of my swimming costume
in choppy ocean swell
water embraces me, breeze strokes
I float in a bath of sunlight

Boundless blue ocean surrounds
as I plunge into its secrets
the only sound the bubbles
of my breathing
in and out of the snorkel

A furious scrum of fishes
contesting over I know not what
eagle rays glide above
Atlantic swell buffets
dolphins sway and swerve
deep below

And somehow the ocean

September 3, 2022Azores, nature, poem, Poetryazores, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Sun glints pierce my eyes
as we hit another wave
rise
slide into the trough
at the apogee
our horizon is limitless
oceanic expanse
seemingly bereft of life
the unharvestable blue
then the cackle of dolphins
arrests our attention
away from the discipline of waves

Snub noses pierce the surface
laughing beeps beckon
closeby then further into the swell
we hesitate and a challenge is issued
repeatedly
until we speed up and run alongside
then within
an enormous crowd
of joyous fellows

Azores Dawn

May 14, 2022Azores, poem, Poetryazores, dawn, nature, Pico, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

The Earth’s sweet turning
has roused newborn Dawn
from her Ocean cradle
light caresses waters
suffuses the island
haloes great Pico
that looms across the strait
enwrapped by rose clouds
reaching to a pale zenith
held in awe by all who gaze on her
she slumbers still

Snorkel

May 11, 2022Azores, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, nature, poem, poetry, snorkelThe Cheesesellers Wife

In the bay
A furious scrum of fishes
Contesting over I know not what
Eagle rays glide above
Between islands
Atlantic swell buffets
Dolphins sway and swerve
Deep below me

Fresh strengthening winds

November 24, 2021Azores, poem, Poetryazores, dolphins, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Fresh strengthening winds from the north roughen the open ocean
Our small boat slams into waves that grow in size, our fear also grows
Dolphins come alongside, chatter and leap, make a game of it all

This poem is my attempt at sing the sijo form. Sijo is a traditional Korean poetry form. It has three lines, like haiku, and the lines are 14-16 syllables. The themes can be natural, spiritual or humorous.

Thank you Rebecca for your poetry Challenge that introduced me to this form.

https://fakeflamenco.com/2021/04/13/april-2021-sijo-poetry-challenge/

The photo on this blog was taken by my then 12 year old son, on the trip the poem describes……