Once upon a time I spent 10 days on a sailboat in the ocean, sailing north. The blue water has been calling me back ever since.
Ultramarine Gulf Stream
liquid conveyor belt, carry my dreams
let me skip along your surface
don’t let me get too deep
Each periwinkle morning
turns to a turquoise blanket of hope
entreating us to sail boldly
past the continental slope
And in the afternoon
a bluefin tuna of iridescent azure
is plucked from the waters
with a silver spoon lure
Sir, we royally salute you
and your noble fate
served up, shimmering,
upon a sapphire plate
Herculean cerulean
yet effortlessly triumphant
we scan for the next horizon
to grasp the earth’s circumference
until we rest our heads
under a diamond indigo shawl
the blue will fuel our reveries-
sailors, explorers, dreamers, all.
Ultramarine is the color of the Gulf Stream.
Check out the blog “A Life Nomadik” – a living example of my poem.
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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I loved the use of the Gulf Stream as a vehicle to portray all the differing shades of blue. >KB
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I’ve sailed those colors and each shade splashed over me as I read. Exquisite.
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Glad you like it Gay!
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I love all the blues fueling and painting the gulf stream ~ Lovely inspiration from your sailing trip ~
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Herculean cerulean…very cool… there’s something so majestic in the color blue..and so soothing as well… ferdinand hodler once said that blue is the only color we can stand in big amounts..
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I agree with him! Maybe that is why the sky is blue? I never really can get enough of blue 🙂
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A beautiful environment created here… You have glorified the shades of blue, which I find most alluring and captivating as well. 🙂
-HA
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Glad you liked it HA. I wanted to write it down so I could remember. Haven’t been sailing in a while.
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Cerulean’s my favorite color, I think, greyblue eyes of the seagod staring back. What a delightful voyage.
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Thanks Brendan! I am glad you liked it 🙂
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Ultramarine Gulf Stream
Herculean Cerulean
Utter bliss.
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Thanks Freya!
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….yes — take us in a journey with your words… you managed to make this feel tangible to senses… smiles…
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Welcome Kelvin, glad you enjoyed it!
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Cerulean Dream of painted words like a ribbon of enchantment capturing my imagination.
Marvelous!!!
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Thanks Morgan!
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Very nice write. I’m a huge sailor, but on lakes. Nice capture. 🙂
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ah i used to sail….to be on a boat sailing for 10 days…that would be a dream…i am an adventurer at heart….i dream of discovery…i want to grab that horizon and pull myself on toward it…smiles…enjoyed the journey…
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My favourite colour, in all its shades – deeply enjoyed this celebration of it!
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Glad you enjoyed it Marina! Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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“…a diamond indigo shawl…” gorgeous!
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Thanks Amy! I was inspired 🙂
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