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"How deep are we?"
Asked Cerulean.
"Deeper than the deep blue sea!"
Laughed Petra.
"Here, for all we know,
The Earth could be
Going around the Moon
Instead of the Sun."
The three teams assembled
And circled about,
Before them a glowing cavern's
Opening at the base of the Pinnacle.
Fumerals steamed and fumed,
Pillow lavas oozed and bubbled red.
"How do we start?"
Asked Cerulean.
"Are you ready?"
Asked Petra.
"As ever!" said Cerulean.
"Let's go!"
Said Petra.
And off they all went.
Simultaneously all three teams
On their Black Ship Pods
Towed by their White Whales,
Shot forward,
Squeezing into the first cavern--
A good start.
Are We Racing?
In some ancient
When and then and there,
The Pinnacle erupted
In the manner of a
Bubbling froth,
Lava pouring out and
Down its slopes
Making a maze of lava tubes,
A crenelated labyrinth
Of narrow passage ways
Interwoven through
Caverns and galleries.
The entire mountain's sides
We're more of a lattice work
Than a solid form,
A quirky result of molten stone
Reacting with the cold deep sea.
Now long dormant, the Pinnacle
Was home to shoaling fish
That parted as the teams neared them.
Still some heat kept the walls
Red and glowing,
And Cerulean looked forward
Into the wild mix of colorful fish
And marine growth covering the mountain's black stone.
"Are we racing or sight seeing?"
Asked Cerulean.
"Your turn with the tether reigns!"
Said Petra
She shuffled back,
Motioned for Cerulean to take center,
Motioned for Cerulean to take center,
And the reigns.
"Hold tight for dear life!"
But Petra's White Whale
Dwaddled while Poe's and Ichi's
White Whales fanned their tails
And accelerated ahead.
Cerulean could sense their
White Whale through the tether.
"Just think something,"
Said Petra,
"Or say it, like 'onward'--
That always works."
"Onward!" said Cerulean
And their White Whale
Thrashed its tail
And leaped ahead
Giving chase.
Petra and Dana had reached around
Cerulean and gripped the reigns,
Their hands with his.
"Sometimes it takes three
To hold on." Petra said.
"Now we're racing!"
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Notes: bit of a hurry scurry...midnight approaches, and I've had this string of posts going...most all of them over at facebook...the #stradaeasel and #inktober2017 dailies...missed posting an illustration yesterday's post, but did begin one, the cats and ravens(crows)...crows were out front yesterday morning in the Jacarandas mobbing the three cats, who all looked at me when I came out with camera thinking Hawk was about...we do this often in the morning...and the dolmen is a work in progress...thought it is on the stage of the Poets' contest...a kind of canopy...want to cover it with flowering vines of some sort...brb...need to get the pics...I can edit after midnight...hmmph...
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