The Word in Focus with Dr Larry Taylor

Wandering lessons of established loves

Wading ashore dripping with kelp

Faces radiating rays of sunlight

They embrace the beachgoers

One by one with soft warm tender kisses

Sorrows and worries melt away

Infusions of energy surge in time with the surf

Light shoots upward into a

Flock of royal gulls that

Spin with joy

Dolphins and gray whales leap,

Breach, and dance as ruby-glistening

Shadows sparkle atop Neptune’s trident

Accompanied by the rumbling bass of the

Blue whales a mile out to sea

Bright red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violent

Staysails, skysails, and moonrakers appear on the horizon

Flying jibs, foresails, mizzen and main set and filled

With a steady warm westerly breeze

She approaches steadily

Flying fish and pelicans laugh

Tens of thousands more dolphins leap

All the cosmos slowly spins

Music of the spheres swells

Flowers spread over the land

Those gently kissed twirl upward

Carried on fairies’ wings and

Set softly on the barque as she runs downwind

Welcoming smiles from the angel crew

They are long-awaited

He comes, the great captain,

Rudy complexation, small of stature,

Weathered and muscular

Hair like black wool

He speaks.

Guilt is dead.