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Indangsu sea, shine dark blue,
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Indangsu sea, shine dark blue,
come rising as a cloudlike drumbeat. The waters, the sailors who know the waters, may know the dark fate of the world beyond that lies past the path that sometimes appears, the weeping of children born into this world, and the sailors may know my daughter's path. How can the waters exist without the world beyond? Full-bodied fear has now become the most yearned-for thing in the world, and my daughter's whimpering stillness in the lotus bud will be such; might love be a bright world and my eyes be plunged in utter darkness? Daughter, already now the waters' own mother, advance over the waters, advance over the waters like the mists that come dropping over the waters. My daughter, advance and travel through every world. Shine dark blue, Indangsu. Weep dark blue.
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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