FOR Promptly Poetry Challenge (2023-24)

UNDERWATER

Lines: 18

Underwater!
Underwater!
What this word evokes, Dad
Your stories of the part you played
In Hollywood's first underwater movie.
Your tale of being a lifeguard
and rescuing the wrestler.
In the swimming pool, as a child
Me, touching the deepest part of the pool.
At the event - you diving for beer bottles!
At camp on an island, with the octopus and puffer fish.
The painting Mom made
of the diver
Inspired by your skin-diving.
The sketch at Disneyland,
you with a fish chasing you.
Underwater,
underwater!
What this word evokes, Dad!