Black Sea Girl
Black Sea Girl, ice maiden
carrying in your face a glacier’s frozen wave,
pale as sand on unknown shores
you hypnotised with those cool blue eyes.
You were an extraordinary babe.
Different, controversial were your flaws
and as you grew, you flashed magic power
into men’s souls,
their eyes earthy autumn leaves in pools of mud
in which you shed tears of pearl
till someone loved you for who you were
not the fact you were the first blue eyed girl.
You trekked your whole life, you roamed,
as the tribe moved north where you made your home
and they laid you under the grass at last,
with rocks to mark the place, knowing you
were the first to be different,
mother of the blue eyed race.
They honoured you where once they feared you.
Now as I look at my grandson, blue eyed like me,
so like my daughter, I see you
far off woman, he’s like you too,
the first girl with eyes that shimmered like the sea,
like summer sky, kingfishers in flight,
bluebell glens, scabious nodding on the downs,
blue moon of dusky midsummer nights
captured through loving.
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