How is it I will know them?

By Kate Noble

How is it I will know them?

shall it show in the white of their eye shining brighter than pure laid snow

while shared moistened straight gaze beckons deep diving

          into sweet orbs of sonar sound and unfathomed ocean-thrum meaning?

      and submerging to soul search leaves wakeful warm ripples

with passing brush glance of sensed seawrack strokings.

These ‘neath water wonderlands

revealing awesome glint grain ground up ages and wisdoms wrought of wrongs 

Can it be that this sifting of bottomless silt-churn

slow settles to new clearness?

     wherein are laid bare invisible currents of secret sound treasures

Then pressure to chest sudden driving due journey back through surface space

and breaking out in wondered glory

so released and refreshed gasping faint thoughts that

in that moment

did I know?

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Kate Noble's creative writing shares time with singing engagements. Her professional life in disability advocacy has led to a keen interest in social justice, women’s issues, mental health and well-being, together with an interest in liminal spiritual and ‘thin' spaces. Read more – waking the mind whilst touching the soul – in Lothlorien, Witcraft, The Writer’s Journal, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, The Wise Owl and Blink INK. She is 59 years of age, living in northern England, UK.