A Sea-glitter Critter (aka Poem)

 PAD Challenge day 18: Write a sea-creature poem

She trolls the hour’s gleaming sweep 

This is the poet’s charge 

To wrestle from the teeming deep 

A ‘creature’ still at large 

The sea of sound and syllable 

Runs rife with life untamed 

Often, she is incapable 

Of snaring the unnamed 

But now and then the reel of pen 

Captures a flash of thought 

And grapples from an ink-ocean 

That which before, was not 

Some verse swims near the surface, some

Dredged by a gritty lure

But all, if captured will become

A Poem, sure as sure 

© Janet Martin