Love Song of the Sea Dog

Two and four
and four and more
I see beside the sea
and listen to
the waves that glisten
upon the parchment tree;
I see within the green reflection
that might and powers be
and want them all
and all for one
the one that makes me we.



Things beyond the great green dream
come summoned from their home.
Things below the great green bowl
come summoned from the loam.
They welcome to the sea,
the fret- and fanci- full sea
that softly spreads its splendored self
lapping, licking the lovely shelf
lulling the little sandy strand
the punitive whelp of a beach.



Two and four
and four and more
I see beside the see
of rum and glum
and glow and glimmer
through mists ghosts a-nightly shimmer,
easy do the fortunes come
and nations on the run.



I hear the tortures roar
and yell like great doubloons!
Chests are rusting on an ancient shore
the pirates' might
has gone for naught
for any a scare to hear ...



Two and four
and four and more
I see beside the sea
of rum and glum
and glow and glimmer
ghosts that do a-nightly simmer
are pulling the shroud
aboard as loud
as the cry of a moth in death.