Tales from Topographic Oceans

Gokarna 2009

From the River to the Sea.

'Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang 

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were:

And molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

May came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world

and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

Its always ourselves we find in the sea.

(sometimes one also finds the skelingtons of strange creatures called by the locals as "GODFISH" (which was later discovered to be a whale!))

and sometimes one falls in love with a little scruffy black puppy called "Kalikalooti" :O)