Aegean daydream

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Oh Aegean
Blue wonderous dream
Found in sleep and lost
When waking dreams find
A place of lesser colours
Sky smudged oils burnt
Water without sparkle
Land without gold sands
Fragile courage fails
When Aegean ends
Water edge is far
Hear your lapping still
In my sleep commute
To your distant shores
Explore a world of wonder
Catch a sense of peace
Lazy loafing afternoons
Denied to landlocked lubbers
Who know not calamari from Campari
Feel not Sun of Achilles
Warming shoulders and white washed homes
Are not pier watchers
With the flocks of gulls
As fishing boats stutter in
With their loads of bounty
From rich deep clear shining blue Aegean Sea.