Sylvia Plath Reads 'Daddy'

Poem by Lesley

Hi and welcome to my poetry Blog. Here's my first entry. If you have any suggestions how it could be improved let me know:

Cretan Idyll

Adrift on a cushion of air I float
The Cretan sunshine warming my skin
I feel as insignificant as a paper boat
Bobbing across the sea’s green rim.
Underneath my transparent bed, a rainbow
Of fish swim silently by, turning on a whim
With a luminous flicker, they swim
Slicing the clear water with their sharp fins.
I’m frozen in time; look up now and I
Might see Icarus in a dazzling flash with wings
Ablaze, falling headlong from the sky
Or Aphrodite rising from the waves.
For here is where the past and present meet;
A timeless place where one can feel complete.