Turbulent and troubled waters,

inky black the swelling ocean:

bobbing up and chopping downwards

as the sunlight sneaks away.

Far beyond the water hillocks

endless wastes of dark and deepness

beckon to the weary swimmer

etiolate of warming rays.

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Down beneath the dipping wave splash

thousand single fishes swiggle

swept along by bubble currents

schools of grey-spark in the gloom.

Turtles trundle out from homeward

sea slugs hug the rugged coral.

All the teeming blue-light life forms

calm beneath relaxing waves