Eight-line Poems

Clearer Than Water

Clearer Than Water

There is something magical in the ocean,
close up, and the bottom white sand,
the water as clear as crystal held to the light,
lucid, limpid, laced with the shadows
of gentle waves that lap at one’s knees,
and the little fish, not swimming but flying,
over a submerged world so sharp,
that each grain stands out to be counted.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.14.21
Prompt: Lucid.