Food-rich water
Here's to hoping the future will see the ocean still full of food-rich water.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape...
As seamless and faceless as…
What could be more seamless and faceless than a U-boat surfacing and submerging, grey and impersonal? Apologies to all naval...
Peat-dark waves
A description of wild swans floating on the night sea. I like that Maxwell uses peat, a local material, to...
A wave-frothing vat
The sea as a wave-frothing vat!
‘He fell beneath his shield, / in the same gem-crusted, kingly gear / he...
Of curling waves
Tarka the otter enjoys his first exposure to the sea, with a wave being likened appropriately to a shell-fish.
'A...
Sea-drenched wind
I re-discover this triologism as we emerge from days of rain-drenched wind, waking up to a lush-verdant garden and landscape.  ...
Easy-limbed stirring
I liked this description of a boat responding like a limber-limbed youth to the movement of the sea. 'Easy-limbed stirring'...
Many-coloured sea
This simple line from a journal, a near haiku of beauty.
'The moon, a many-coloured sea and sky.'Â Â ...
Glittering as though sugared
Ah yes, that's how it looks when you have those dancing sparkles on the sea's surface. I like the extension...
Limb-consuming Scylla
I appreciated Nicolson's summing up the twin terrors as two aspects of the female threat.
'After the monstrous-beautiful Sirens, Odysseus...
Frogs around a pond
I liked Socrates' image of the Mediterranean, that great big watery basin, as a pond around which we live like...
Sea the colour
I love different ways of describing eyes, and colours, and this one allows some range in its definition. Blue or...
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