<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to a Vampire Squid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh relic, from a wayward deep sea branch<br>The octopi and squid have passed you by<br>Kaleidoscopic cousins who perchance<br>Have left you sinking, reticent and shy<br>Cool eyes are saucered opals, milky hued<br>A powder blue afloat in talc soft skin<br>A death slow pulse evokes hypnotic mood<br>Diaphanous slit gills draw water in</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dark intruder looming, swift and lithe<br>Flip inside out, concealed in fluted purse<br>With jellied cirri, white on black, you writhe<br>From tips, blue neon fusillade disperse<br>Intruder lunges, misses, glides away<br>Unpeel, dilate your luminescent cape<br>Unfolded, fine twinned filaments sashay<br>As lucent ribbon cast from membrane drape</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At this great depth, free oxygen is scant<br>Yet you, blue-blooded master of the glean<br>Now flaunt archaic inner light extant<br>Bright flashes strobe with phosphorescent sheen<br>With languid flaps, you cautiously advance<br>Warm eyes, aglow with blend of rose and frost<br>Do you, withdrawn beauty, seek to dance? <br>With I, a winsome lonely copepod lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368253" data-title="Ode to a Vampire Squid de Diane Hine" data-description="Oh relic, from a wayward deep sea branch The octopi and squid have passed you by Kaleidoscopic cousins who perchance Have left you sinking, reticent and shy Cool eyes are saucered opals, milky hued A powder blue afloat in talc soft skin A death sl..."></div> </div> </div>

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