Poem: Notes on Jellyfish

Notes on Jellyfish

By Michelle Betters
QuailBellMagazine.com

When desire aligns itself with the whirring the document
Composes itself as follows
With gelatinous tissue which is most often translucent
but sometimes an opaque pink
Propels itself on to the screen
The jellyfish is interesting because it has no blood
Nor bones nor eyeballs nor mouth in our understanding of the mouth
Or tracts differing from that connected to the mouth
In this way becomes a mysterious creature unlike most
Creatures we find not mysterious and to watch
The jellyfish propel itself
Through the current would be to
Whir the engine around itself and
Reason that it has an objective that allows
It to achieve a goal
Daily without any delay or interfering hesitation /reluctance
When the light hits the water
In a certain way it
Infiltrates the jellyfish
To be a jellyfish must be a very odd thing to be
Much different than walking and talking and processing
The like of daily tasks and recharging your batteries and ensuring personal comfort
In one’s material and solid surroundings
When searching jellyfish one might find a number of interesting facts
About the creature but most often one will find
Stimulating images of the various forms of jellyfish that
Populate our worlds oceans if you do not know what an ocean is please click here
If you do not know exactly what our world is please click here

Michelle Betters is a writer originally from Thomasville, Georgia.