Deep Sea Diving

O the measured flood of surf; The cosmic rhym of tides! The world rolls like a pearl Through gulleys in the mind's eye. The wind reports on a wreck' Breaking upon a reef. Its hull is dislodged and dragged Over a coral steeple. Its sunken cabins are sequined By luminous shoals of silver fish. That I can only describe As resembling aquatic butterflies! A myriad of shells are filched From watery caves by divers Amidst mutli coloured pockets of the sea. O observe its brilliant fauna and vermillion And saffron praires of weeds! The deep sea diver extracts molluscs From shells with corkscrew twist of knife. Many times he has listened to the great roar Of the sea from the vast deeps of the shell's insides. The waves unroll a white hem of lace On the soft pure sands. The sapphire water discloses A sea floor of zebra stripes. A nervous cloud of pink fish Takes off into deeper water. Observe a heap of ink black pebbles And the sanded drag of smoke. Observe the blue dazzle of light above. O what dreams this undersea world evokes!