salt crusted timber
in phosphorescent foam
scales of moonlight
kiss ink black water
in the sick and sea glass
a mesmerizing mirror
shines
fog rolls over
the smell of brine
aching
eclipsing time
a lonely #siren
hums a rhyme
come to me
come to me
out to sea
out to sea
and I will
comfort thee

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Mermaids singed so loud
each #siren of city tunnels
warned our lighthouses.
The next night could
whistle through funnels
that striped all blouses.
Citizens wore a shroud
until every kennels
hosted few mouses.

(❗Dogs left the port❗)

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A smile & wink, a #siren’s call
Eventually she brings them all
She builds trust then a trap
So men can take and plot a map
Emotional cooercion
A sickness & manipulation
Young girls taken advantage of their vulnerability
She’s ensnared and pulled them into debauchery
Empowerment or slavery?

‘I don’t understand this whole mermaid thing.’

‘What don’t you get?’

‘Why do they sing so weird? Is that like a warning or something?’

‘In mythology, they called ‘em a #siren. They would lure ships to crash into the rocks.’

‘Oh. Why didn’t they just call ‘em from their shell phone?’

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Parthenope,
maiden voice,
Ligeia,
shrill voice,
Leucosia,
white devil,
each #siren was born into a human-like body,
transformed only when a daughter of Rhea & Cronus feathered them.
Since culture made them mermaids, Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour thus named his underwater sound apparatus.
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'Sorry, Gabe, but if you'd plugged your ears like I said, you wouldn't be under a #siren spell. And I wouldn't have to tie you up & pelt you with rotten eggs until you snap out of it.'
'Pixie! There is no siren.'
'Can't hear you, Gabe. Ears are plugged... eggs incoming!'
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soul sirens blare

we remain unaware

our deepest need

feeds our darkest deed

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How quickly a thing turns something beautiful,
broken, chipped, discolored
Is that life?
correcting what’s slightly off
Undercover albeit turning a sirens on
but…

How & why aren’t i yet caught?
Maybe because i’m merely the one catching seizing, preventing
As soon as possible

3 daughters of Achelous & Melpomene,
granddaughters of Oceanus & Tethys,
Zeus & Mnemosyne,
handmaidens of Persephone—when Hades abducted her to the Underworld,
Demeter granted them wings to fly the oceans in search of her.

Odysseus,
last to hear the #siren song,
because he lived,
they died.
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beneath the moon
a thousand broken masts
point towards heaven
like prayers
that never arrived

where a siren's call
becomes an invitation

and every warning
a love song in disguise

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🎨 The Sirens (1892) by John Longstaff.

crawling
towards the lover's edge
of your #siren call

dash me against the rocks
drown with me

if it means i see you again

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"Our"

fleeting moment in the
sun. Swan song setting as
we crest what few waves remain.

That siren sound sending us ever
closer to the brink, can't even tell when the hull we call country will finally give out.

Basking in our final hour in the surf, seconds slowly slipping away.

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The water is warm this time of year; I’m up to my knees before I wake.

I only hear her when I sleep, the #siren.

I look towards shore and see smaller footprints next to my own. I look for him, panicked, splashing, but he’s not here.

I am alone.

I didn’t know my son could hear her, too.

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"When you hear the improper thought warning #siren, immediately open your emergency scripture and recite what you see without hesitation. We must keep society pure of thought, word, and deed."
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I'm told my birth was hard
For my mother who had to give me up
My father who was trapped away
My sister whose place had changed
I remember not

The nurse sang a #siren song
To lure me forth
I smiled at her but for no one else
I gave all my love that day
No other would ever touch my heart
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I was warned about the #siren. We could see her sat on her rock from the shore. Dad told me she would tempt me. Mum said she would drown me. As I waded chest deep into the water their screams for me to turn back were broken on the waves. Up close, she used her seaweed hair to cover her tears
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When the #siren rang out no one ran for safety

The beast had taken so much from them: their harvests, their children, their infrastructure

All they had left was their lives, and with no hope for the future, living didn't seem worth doing

It was more than happy to take that too
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Wind stills sails wilt
Superstitions unfurl
In seas unmapped
minute by minute by hour

One odd night
steals under Skipper's skin
Never look into a pail of water
on empty stomach
at dusk on an even day
The #siren song
finds him floating
through dead air placid ocean
His ears eating their fill
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Every morning the same wake up call:
less a #siren song
but the wail of a hungry banshee
demanding food
fooooood
fooooooooooood

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