Mermaid’s Lair

Are they dragons?
Are they banshees?
Are they here or not?
Are they singing, gently calling
Sailors to come upon their rocks?
Are they nightmares?
Are they sylphs
Appearing before their eyes?
Are they danger?
Warning
”Stay away sailor!”
Very, very wise!
Are they needy?
Are they nymphs?
Are they gnomes or ‘manders?
Are they cautious?
Are they fierce?
Aye, they’re elementals!

The mermaid’s lair
Is clear to see
On days the sea is clear,
But heed the warnings
In the mornings
When the mist is here.
The singing
Is not a calling,
But a warning
To go away.
Heed the warnings
In the mornings
And live another day.

Nov 13, 2012

Abilities, Animals, Confusion, Direction, Feel GOOD!, Ghosts, Legends, Mystery, Nature, Questions, Random, Rhyme, Senses, The World, Time

20 responses to “Mermaid’s Lair”

Purpleskyz

Nov 13, 2012

Theres always Sirens singing in a shipwreck
Stay away from those rocks
You’ll be a walking disaster

Radiohead…

I had a mermaid dream last night then I see this. Cool.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Now there’s a coincidence, Purpleskyz!
  
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prenin

Nov 13, 2012

Good one Tom! 🙂

Maybe the mermaids were the progenitors of the lighthouse??? 🙂

God Bless!

Prenin.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  I think they were, Prenin.
  There had to be something before lighthouses were invented!
  
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nrhatch

Nov 13, 2012

Lovely, Tom. Mermaids are sea sirens, using their voices as lures . . . to dash dashing men against the rocks.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Thanks, Nancy… but they could also have been misunderstood, and their singing was a warning to sailors to stay away… however, being nosy sailors they wanted to see what was making all the noise, and ended up, in, well, deep water…
  
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Visionkeeper

Nov 13, 2012

Poor mermaids have been given such a bum wrap…Their existence may be for entirely different reasons than what they have been given….Time to change the evil concept….VK

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Exactly, VK!
  When I wrote this rhyme, I was really concentrating on the legends of the elementals, but then I wrote the second part which brought more attention to the mermaids. Both parts question the mermaids, rather than looking at their evil intent, but it does switch between the good and bad of their legend.
  And, the odd thing – I tried to centralise both parts of the rhyme, but the WordPress editor and my Live Writer thingy wouldn’t have it, which is why the format looks a little odd. It does highlight the two parts to the tale, if you like, and the fact that some gremlins are here to help us!
  Thanks for your comment, VK, and for being pro-mermaid! 😀
  
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giselzitrone

Nov 13, 2012

Bleiben sie von den Felsen fern,das ist besser.Wünsche einen schönen glücklichen Tag Gruss Gislinde.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Immer die beste Beratung, Gislinde, danke für kommentieren, und ich hoffe, Sie hatten einen guten Tag, wie gut!
  
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aFrankAngle

Nov 13, 2012

Well done … yet they continue today to lure to the rocks.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Thanks, Frank.. they do indeed!
  
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Sue Dreamwalker

Nov 13, 2012

Lets hope if Mermaids call they do so to warn those in danger Tom, Although when man goes to sea he has mostly been known to call his hunting cry, as he sails to catch Fish, Whales, and to wage war,..
So if they were to lure to their lair, who could blame them?

Great Poem and beautiful graphic….

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  I hope they sing as a warning from danger, Sue, rather than a warning from themselves… but like you say, with some of ‘our’ activities it would be their right to act however they choose!
  Thanks, Sue!
  
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kateshrewsday

Nov 13, 2012

Oooh, spine tingling! You remind me of the Greek sirens, Tom.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 13, 2012
  
  Thanks, Kate!
  Whereas the mermaids are sea-living creatures and the sirens are land-dwellers, they are quite similar in some regards… but hopefully different in others!
  
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gabrielgarbowota

Nov 13, 2012

This is a lovely and engrossing poem, Tom. I was wondering whether the formatting shift was intentional, but it sounds like it was those pesky gremlins. Like you said, though… it works.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 14, 2012
  
  Thanks, Gabriel. I actually like the way it’s formatted now to how I had intended it to be!
  Those gremlins did well!
  
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shreejacob

Nov 16, 2012

Lovely poem! Though just like dragons, I’ve always taken mermaids to be just as nice as Unicorns! Well…maybe dragons aren’t as flighty 😉

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Nov 16, 2012
  
  They are a bit flighty them mermaids, Shree… according to legend, obviously!
  
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