SARGASSO SEA: A Poem
From the Early Poems Collection circa early 70s
Seas of grasses and vines
Seas of births and deaths
Seas of youthful growing and mature aging
Seas of the Anguilla rostrata
and
Seas of the Anguilla
It’s the Sargasso Sea
Where the story of conception
birth
growth
maturity
aging
cessation occur daily
The Sargasso Sea:
a microcosm of life
a struggle for existence
the search for love
the discovery of hope
A portrait of man unseen experienced by creatures of the deep
who traverse the ocean in search of
identity
and
meaning
to the unexplained urges that compel them
to seek
their reality
their destiny
and
eventually their annihilation
in the seas of grasses and vines
The Sargasso Sea:
a mystery written as object lesson
to an inattentive
unappreciated subject…
G. D. Williams © 2012
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American Museum of Natural History: Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is an area in the Atlantic Ocean covered with a thin layer of sargassum, a floating seaweed. The ocean currents that circle the North Atlantic form a ring around the Sargasso Sea, creating a nearly windless region covering roughly 5 million square kilometers (2 million square miles).
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/01_dioramas/e_sargasso.php
NOAA: Sargasso Sea
Sargasso Sea is a vast patch of ocean is named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum. While there are many different types of algae found floating in the ocean all around world, the Sargasso Sea is unique in that it harbors species of sargassum that are ‘holopelagic’ — this means that the algae not only freely floats around the ocean, but it reproduces vegetatively on the high seas. Other seaweeds reproduce and begin life on the floor of the ocean.
