Monsters of the Deep

Painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor
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Shh… sleep and dream

of a world beneath the waves.

of monsters of the deep you read,

in the legend of the Argonauts,

or Jules Verne’s novel of the sea;

before the lens begins to probe

beyond the skin of the sea,

to where the sea down there

is deeper than Everest is high.

Monsters these are under the bed

in the bathtub or rock pool,

monsters the imagination makes,

where the line is none or unclear

between imagination and truth,

for fantasy works best in the dark 

and the mind is young and free.

AVR 2002