OCEAN OF TEAL AND TEARS AND ONE DROP OF LOVE

 

A man falls in love with a mermaid

Breaks his wife’s heart

Leaves her behind then returns home

Forever!

 

I fell for a mermaid of the sea

Her name Marzelle

But married Monsignor am I

Bonny Sailor John of sea

How can I tell thee?

Mademoiselle Clarion

As sweetly though you play for me

Flute and handy guitar

I love blue teal and turquoise

Shiny sea shells

Tail with generous moon scales

A riot of them in the rocky scars

Of ocean wells

Along with a face as pearly waves

A pretty mermaid

Marzelle!

 

How can I tell thee?

Mademoiselle Clarion

The very next day on a cruise I’d been

Holidaying without her

I saw mermaid Marzelle swim atop whales

Dolphins and narwhals

The blue teal turquoise shore

How can I tell Mademoiselle Clarion?

I spied through my binoculars

Mermaid Marzelle with her mermaid friends

Seated on rocks

Preening into her vanity mirror of shells

And precious corals

I was devoid of feelings

For my dear wife

My spare rib

With a frilly frock

Now head over heels in love

All for fishy tails instead of Cinderella slippers!

 

When on a Saturday through Seychelles

Did cruise my ship along the turquoise teal blue

Voyaged up and down

The barmy sea

My handy guitar my wife

Gave me

Removed I to play a tune on shore

Mermaid Marzelle happily danced she

Swaying her tails and splashing along

While I to their tune of song

Strummed with plectrum

My handy guitar

O happy I!

Beyond words could measure

Measure for measure!

Or sunken treasures reveal themselves

In the turquoise blue teal sea

Of pearly tears!

 

Why Marzelle the mermaid told me

Just the other day down the bend

A strange island called Pirates Reef

Where plankton, rock wracks

Barnacles and sea horses rocked hobbies

To and fro

There submerged underneath the sands

Of cockles, shells, crabs

And musty treasures

Of the sunken chest

Full of lovely jewels and precious things

Galore!

Pearls as big as blue bubbles for ladies necks

Sapphires, rubies and emerald stone pendants

Charms and amulets of lucky silver horse shoes

Mermaid’s tails

Whales and pelicans

Her charming mirror of sea shells

And precious corals

She preened once in a while

To see rosy red cheeks

A beauty spot

Golden fair locks

In kiss curls around a pearly face

As shiny as waves

That brushed the shore

Now brushed my beard

And handlebars

With a magical kiss

They joyfully twitched up and down

As the raucous waves hit jagged rocks

Into sublime silvery white crested froth

Now should I take one for Mademoiselle Clarion?

Lest she guess ‘twas from Mermaid Marzelle

A rock as big as a moonstone

Blue Lapis Lazuli’s as well

Surely not from the usual town store

I’d tell her a fib…..

From your faithful valentine

She wouldn’t guess a dime from a farthing

As it is I reckon

She’d never found those anywhere

In any jewellers shop

Would she be poor little thing or grateful I suppose?

 

How do I love thee I pray?

My Caracas caravel of the sea

When I have a jalopy on land

The difference you plainly see

Is Mermaid Marzelle owns caravels for me

Like island Caracas God Blimey Me!

But O’ Poor Mademoiselle Clarion

It’s obvious you know

Like a petering teapot

Travels in a jitney wherever she goes

How I yearn to live below

And not above on surface land

Where cows chew cud

And butterflies visit roses and sunflowers in summer

Wear us Hawaiian garlanded wreaths

Dear Mademoiselle Clarion and me

But how I wish

To travel by Egyptian tortoise

Painted turtles

And Galapagos

The Seven Isles

Instead of a horse with blinders

Plain a saddle

Jingling her spurs

O’ so disheartened I’d be

To ride

Mademoiselle Clarion and I!

 

In Galapagos Seven Isles

I decided to end my seven year itch

Go down on my knees

And profess true love

Thusly put on a pearl ring

And propose fair Mermaid Marzelle

In a wink I’d turn two tails

Her lover a knightly chivalrous merman

Instead of Monsignor John

But such news ocean of teal and tears

Would bring

I could hardly imagine

Or ever speak about at will

A storm that brewed

A tempest in a tea cup

I removed the log in my eye

And the spec from my beloved wife’s

I clearly saw I was bound

In a holy sacrament

A vow I pledged

“Till death do us part”

Now tormented

By my feelings

Before I united

Ocean of teal and pearls

Dear Mermaid Marzelle’s

Misty blue green eyes and her true heart

 O fickle me of course!

How time did belie

My true feelings for my wife

 

The sorceress before the wedding vows

Betwixt the mermaid and I took oath

Cautioned me to leave for home

Before a tidal wave surged in the sea

Would crush her kingdom

At peril she’d be and

The ocean of teal and pearls

I felt sorry for abandoning her

Lying to her

I should never leave

However she preferred to die

Than with me sail

Lest she take me to grave

Before I live the rest of years

Far away seven isles Galapagos

But the Mermaid Marzelle

Through sixth sense

Guessed right

I fumbled and lied

That indeed I loved her

When ‘twas sweet Clarion

She let me go

The wise poor creature

Naïve and poor chicken hearted me!

I couldn’t stop the wall of a tidal wave

Gushing any moment forth

So sorrowfully in a wink of an eye

With a magic spell

Returned home I joyfully

To loving arms of Mademoiselle Clarion

Sweetly and pleasantly

Playing her flute and my handy guitar

 

Soon learnt I

From mermaids nearby

The curse the sea Kraken had invented

Any of his mermaids dare marry a land lubber

Both would drown in a twisty hole of a tidal wave cyclone

Under bottom shore

Cursed me my fickle heart

To fall for such good and sweet fish tailed human

Now settled in my marriage life with great whim and gusto

Forgetting Marzelle the blue mermaid

Yonder Ocean Teal and tears

Brought into her eyes

Salty precipitated drops

When she thought about me

Monsignor John the lusty sailor

But Mermaid Marzelle wished me well

She was alive

Yay! Hooray!

Booyah! Cheers!

A gallant merman had rescued her

It was embrace of bodies with fins and tails

Moon scales, romancing rocks and gleaming pebbles

Blow pipes with whistles

Whilst me a princess with a frilly petticoat of lace

Two tails of my tuxedo

Exchange of coy glances behind fans

Ballroom dances and Cinderella slippers!

All under a blue moon

Ocean of teal and tears!

And one drop of love!