Eternal Sea (Shakespearean Sonnet)

by Brandon Evans   Jul 31, 2004


Waves were a tempting mistress
I bathed in her extensive body
Her thrashing caused me no distress
Boat destroyed, craftsmanship shoddy

Floating alone for days on end
Suddenly ship’s light appears
Presenting to me a hand to lend
I offered my life-saving cheers

Back on land I sit and wonder
Why do I not feel content?
It was then I realized their ignorant blunder
My life was no more than resent

Stones filled my pockets; I waded back out to sea
Smiling as I returned to her, I know she’ll set me free

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Shakespearean (English) Sonnet.
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  • 19 years ago

    by Brandon Evans

    Thanks be to everyone.

    Trincy, you figured it out... (Although I never looked at it from a drug point of view). I tried to write this poem in a way to allow the reader to draw their own conclusions whether the sea is real or the sea is a metaphor, it's up to the reader. Much like the other poem I wrote, Crimson Loathe. While it could be taken straight forward as a poem coming from a knife, the knife is symbolic for anything that helps us get through the bad times.

  • 19 years ago

    by Liam

    yeah i see wat u mean about the meanings.
    great poem

  • Please don't laugh at me, First when i read i felt a person had lot of problems. He ran away from everybody and tried to be happy. But then he realised he was not really happy and suicided.

    Then when i read it again... I felt a person was adicted to drugs or something.. some medication helped him out. But he wasn't brave enough to face the problems in life or he couldn't be happy. So he goes back to drugs....and may be dies..

    The third time when i read it i felt,...

    Do i have to say more? The more i read , i found different meanings! Great poem!

  • 19 years ago

    by Timothy r

    Very good Brandon, I like a lot of your work, I will catch up with more later. Thanx, Timothy r

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