my first published poem

Posted By: Merlina
Date: Monday, 27 September 1999, at 1:30 p.m.

This is my first poem that was truely recognized, and hangs in the Library of Congress.........

Currents...

Ocean waters, so cool upon my skin, as I lay thinking of this world I'm in.
This place known simply as the planet earth, this place where my life began
at birth. I travel from moment to moment in time, running blind finding
no reason in life's rhyme. Feeling tethered, sometimes cruelly bound, I'm
wondering in words without uttering a sound......
Why does so much block my way? Who have I wronged, what did I say?
Happiness is supposedly an easy thing, yet in darkness is the only time my
heart
seems to sing. In self pity I haven't cast myself away, rather looking for a
reason or an answer to the words I did pray. I believe we all learn from our
past pain, but I can no longer reach to win nor gain....
Oh how cool the water feels on me, this place I love, my lady the sea. Her
waves are so powerfully strong, thier crashing is like that of a soothing
song. Her waters seem calm yet there be dangers from the surface below,
where only the strong survive and the weak go. Once long ago I knew it all,
I was strong and knew I could never fall. Oh how times have changed so fast,
loosing this feeling of times past. My waves not able to crash against the
sand, feeling much to tired to even stand...
So here upon her wake I lay, a voice of welcome to her I say. Her beauty has
always been there, now, lovingly she consumes my air. I hear her waves
crash like thunder, as I feel my flesh go slowly under. Calm as the current
makes no sound, home eternal I have found. There be no struggle nor fight,
it goes dark, lost forever in her reflecting light...

Written bt Merlina Rene~

Messages In This Thread

my first published poem
Merlina -- Monday, 27 September 1999, at 1:30 p.m.

Re: my first published poem
Randa Lee -- Monday, 27 September 1999, at 4:18 p.m.

Re: my first published poem
Ginger -- Monday, 27 September 1999, at 5:18 p.m.

Re: my first published poem
Kassandra Likely -- Tuesday, 8 November 2005, at 8:58 p.m.

Re: my first published poem
Ginger Edwards -- Tuesday, 8 November 2005, at 9:31 p.m.

 

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