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Freeing Liana ~ free verse

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Liana cuts a trail
with the thrust of her tail
through the deep wet ocean so blue,
so blue.

Becoming one
with the current’s hum
she taxis the dead
to eternity.
Their rotting flesh
feeds gastropods
who wait at the bottom of the sea
oh yeah
(they wait at the bottom of the sea)

Eating up eternity
the ocean’s energy shifts, and
Liana gets off on the folds of change.

(Poseidon is water
Poseidon is water)

She ignores the voices in her head
preferring her oneness with ocean instead.
Water’s movement through her gills
gives Liana silent chills.

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I wrote Fulfilling Liana ~ A Shakespearean Sonnet for a prompt at One Stop Poetry. This is the free verse continuation of Liana’s story. Freeing Liana.

Fulfilling Liana ~ A Shakespearean Sonnet

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In times of drought, Liana dreams a sea,
imagining a tail to twist and thrust.
Come mermaid me becomes her chanted plea.
Poseidon struggles hard against his lust.

Liana yearns an ocean into life;
and trances out a sodden reverie.
Liquidity belies her earthly strife;
she conjures up a deep-sea valkyrie…

Capitulating human lungs for gills
Liana breathes her last breath of the night.
She trades away the earth’s long rolling hills
as sea gods make her fervent wish take flight.

Sing out her name when tossing over dead!
Sweet Valkyrie please bind them to death’s thread.

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A shout out to Sam Peralta and One Stop Poetry for the inspiration. I gave a Shakespearean Sonnet a whirl, and I like the results. The whole piece took about three hours to write, move around, etc… It was a fun process and did not wind up even near where I started. The prompts at One Stop are intelligent, as are the other pieces they inspire. Check them out.

I just wrote a free verse response called Freeing Liana ~ Free Verse.