Your bottle of Dom
tickles my throat like a lie.
I'll buy me a beer.
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Cathy holmes
Canadian family girl with a recently discovered love for writing. Other loves include animals and sports.
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The Salt in her Voice
The myth says mermaids sing to lure sailors to their death. But why? The ocean is huge. Only 5 percent has been discovered by man. Why would a creature of the sea with that much space to roam ever care about the fate of men on ships? The answer, as it turns out, is not a simple one at all. The truth about the myth is older than the tides. Long ago before the first ship ever cut across the surface, the sea made a pact with the sky. The sky would take the souls of the drowned. Anyone who died in storms or any quiet accidents of the deep would have their soul lifted upward to the Heavens while the bodies would remain below, feeding the oceans endless hunger. The greedy sea however wanted more souls than the sky would claim. So it created mermaids. It gave them beautiful voices woven from currents and moonlight. It commanded them to sing. "Bring forth the ones who float where they should sink." it instructed them. So they did. They never killed out of malice but out of obligation. They sung to summon, not to seduce. A mermaid's voice could loosen the tether between the body and soul, making any man step willingly into the water. The sea would take the body and the sky would take the soul. Balance maintained.
By Sara Wilson7 days ago in Fiction
Comments (16)
I do love beer...works better when it is bitter, like the bitter taste the lies leave in your gut. One for all occasions Cathy. BEER.
I'll take a kombucha. (Never learned to like either wine or beer, lol.)
Very punchy! Great senryu!
Brought me a smile!
Made chuckle. Never got champagne either!🤍
No getting anything past you!
Beer over bubbles every time. Made me laugh!
Brillant!!
I don't drink. I've never even tried. I'll stick to coffee, thanks. Hehehe. Loved your Senryu!
Nicely done!
I've always hated beer 😅 but yet I'll still drink it sometimes 😂😅 Love your poem! ♥
Bourbon and Coke or on the Rocks, CC and ginger, and a few other whiskeys. Wine or champagne, no way.
Well said! 🍺
Oh yeah. I’m with you on that. Beer is always gonna beat out something weird and bubbly!
Loved the punch of every word. And I've had Dom before...I didn't like it. Way too dry...hahahaha
hahahah - yeah! I’ll take a margarita with El Jimador 🤣