2 for Tuesday octopus poems by Diane Mayr and Sarah Burns for #OctopusMonth

It's hard for me to believe that #OctopusMonth is nearly over... today's 2-for-Tuesday features poems with artsy connections. First, here's a cherita from Diane Mayr:

for a moment he wonders

could he be at home

in the sunlight?

octopus hurry scurries

back to the twilight zone

a better fit in so many ways

- Diane Mayr

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Oh that twilight zone... it is a great place for a secretive, solitary octopus!

And now, here's one inspired by a piece of art you may recognize from #OctopusMonth twitter feed earlier in the month: Sarah Burns' treasure picked up in Hawaii now has a poem (by Sarah!) to go with it! 

Gyotaku

This particular Pacific Octopus

glides up from the depths of the sea

into my dining room.

Caught off the coast of Maui,

she is revered for astonishing

acrobatic feats,

intelligence

and delectable flavor.

All her elegant limbs – count them!

drenched in colored paint

pressed onto this black cloth

to live on forever

as a work of art.

~ Sarah Burns

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Octopuses ARE works of art, aren't they? Thank you! See you tomorrow for our final day of #OctopusMonth.