Great wings glide by Apollo’s blaze;
side-slips of gold to Sea’s fiery glaze.
Watery steeds rear with plunging might,
tossing spindrift manes, charged with Light,
to surge and shatter panes of turquoise translucence;
– riding high -
into the velvet, violet dark of momentary Night.

urgent Dawn unfurls her pearly sails,
looses rainbows, breathing snowflakes.
Mysterious platforms of frigid splendour afloat,
flirting with Fog’s fleeting veils, become
Virgin portals in an Ice- Queen’s moat.
Sun-gilded cliffs slice ocean drizzle –
silent, gliding wildernesses of White.

Monuments to Blue, daring Neptune’s chisel.
Wind-hewn dragons,
neon angels’ Ark de la Mer.
Parades of pristine gondalas;
podiums for penguins
- or Death-leopard’s lair?
Apparitions of frozen impermanence,
born of storm-wracked mountains,
- drifting -
Survivors of the odds.
From pillaged magnificence -
Ice gardens of the gods.