Abstract Photo 2687 Crystal Landscape 106 Ships full of hopes

At this point history

breaks free of its prison.

After a million-year lockdown

and hard-pressed in rock layers,

these planispirals shatter

a thousand ocean drops.

Clear as crystal they crest

the waves of time.

Leaping into the now,

their sculptured beauty

brings a long lost past

capturing human eyes

for the first time.

Ammonites - Paul Mortimer

we walked the sand

as the tide moved away

looking for colored glass,

sea blue, sail white, golden amber,

the palest of green

yes, he said,

bits of flotsam

from ancient ships,

crystalline ships that once sailed

under gossamer wings,

their hulls of finest quartz and amethyst

sparkling in the sun

clear as the seas on which they moved.

under full sail,

they were an enchanting sight

moving across the cerulean waters

in the clear light of day-

ahhh, but at night,

the reflection of stars

glistened across the shimmering deck

lighting the ships with an internal spark-

my, it would have been a sight to see.

but now,

all that is left

of the great crystalline ships

that once sailed the clear blue seas…

and he handed me a shard of sparkling sea glass,

the palest of greens

                                                                                    Sea Glass - kathleen Everett