14 responses to “Sea foam”

1. You set the scene so well in those first 6 lines! Made use of the rose names very very well! I fear the mermaids have shapeshifted (or sound shifted?) into sirens!

   • yes, and they are a bit the same to me.

2. This is deliciously dark, Bjorn! The words from the list blend in and work so well together especially; “a summer song cajoling sailors, windrush them into the surf into ebb tide.”

   I love a mermaid poem! 🥰

   • So many names seemed to point at mermaids

     • Yes! 🙂

3. We both wrote about mermaids, Björn! I love sounds in these lines:

   ‘windrush them
   into the surf
   into ebb tide
   into bitter brine’

   and the thought of ‘reposing at peace deep in a seagull’s call’.

   • Thank you… I will get around to read yours too.

4. The allure of the mermaid, has been the ruin of many a sailor’s fare. Great poem!

   • Thank you… and yes ot is the myth… (or maybe just blaming the women)

5. I expected you to write dark, and you did not disappoint, Björn! I should have remembered you like mermaids and these as Lillian said have become sirens. I like the tactile and sensory elements of the kelp and seagulls call.

   • I am more familiar with the darker mermaid (or siren)…

     • The sirens of Greek myth were bird-women, but I know people tend to think of sirens as mermaids.

6. read with sadness for the sailors “deep in sesgulls call”

   much love

7. oo beware the sirens song, sailor. a salty one this.

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