Kayak Southwest Florida and the Everglades National Park

Poetry by Barbara Clevenger

Barbara has been on many of our trips along the coast and has granted us permission to post her poems inspired by her time along Florida's Wild Coast.  Barbara is a poet, mime, kayaker, cellist, attorney and general fun seeker who is now traveling between SanteFe, Miami and Peoria. Life's an adventure. Get out there!!!!

Passage

Charon ferry’s his dead across
Lethe, river of forgetfulness.
I paddle myself into the hypnotic
curling of the sea.  Instead of death,
the whole world awaits me.
Clouds swim low against the horizon.

 As I travel the roads of porpoises,
thoughts of betrayal, loss, fear,
float above me like ghostly birds,
join the egrets gliding overhead.
They fly away, lost in chalky white sky.

On an island, I sit
like Archimedes and count
grains of sand.  My labors
and regrets depart with the tide,
as I dance along the shore to
the music of the sea.