Arabian Nights

I wrote this poem on holiday in Turkey several years ago. We had a view of the sea from both the balcony and the swimming pool. Both the sea and the sky were an intense blue that blended into each other, it looked almost like a watercolour.

I tried painting the view a couple of times, but I've never been very good at watercolours. So I had a stab at capturing it with words.

Did I manage it?

You tell me.

Arabian Nights

Paper lanterns bob like seabourne 
pearls cast into the night, a string
of swaying satellites in slow procession.
Show me your midnight emporiums,
aglow with baubles, alive with conspiratorial
whispers of special offers and genuine fakes.
Bring me your ambiguous horizons, awash 
with a slow blue blend of sea and sky,
your heat-hazing days and silken, stifling nights,
your five-daily Arabic echoes, alien and beautiful.
Ring my feet with your mosquito bites
as if with ankle-bracelets.