To Kiss the Sea Poem #8

“Do you think there really were mermaids?” Ally glanced up as they happened to pass one of the many stone mermaids carved into the portico of a nearby building. There were countless images of sea creatures, both real and out of their priestess’ stories, all over the city. Carved into stone like the one they’d just passed, laid out in the street mosaics, printed on dishes and pottery. They were everywhere, and yet nowhere.

- TO KISS THE SEA by C.H. Carter

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©Poem & background image by: @foraoise.writes for TO KISS THE SEA by @ccwriter_

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[Image: A brown paper cutout of a girl with long hair, facing away towards a cliff where a mermaid lays at the base. In the sky are a paper bird and clouds. Written in the center is a poem: "Stone mermaids guard the portico grand, carved into life by a devotee’s hand. Ally wonders, could they be real? These creatures of myth, can they truly feel? Kingfishers’ streets, she noticed with a remark were all paved with this oceanic art. Of sea creatures, both real and imagined, sea-kissed by temple maidens in the mornings."]