The Ocean's Collection

by Aidyn   Jun 29, 2006


Next to the ocean, I awaken
Abandoned and forsaken
A captain mutinied, mistaken
For a treachery abhorred
I am broken, I am bleeding
Into the beach-sand, I am pleading
For my speeding heart to falter
On this wave-tossed, cursed shore

With the Earth's methodic turning
My mind is slowly burning
And I'm yearning for a chance to kiss
The waves, all set agleam.
My consciousness is flying
With the seagulls wheeling, crying
As my body remains lying
Next to a tide pool's rippling stream.

And the tide, it slowly rises
As the beach-sand realises
That it certainly despises
The cold water's salted burn
And the waves, their cool caresses
Are euphoria--suppresses
All my shallow-laid distresses
Carried out with sea-foam's churn.

Now the water's soft advances
Seem to quicken as it dances
And lo, further now, it prances
Up my shiver-laden skin
The minutes become hours
'Neath the sea's progressing showers
Until I find myself devoured
By the under-current's spin

My eyes roll into slumber
With the water over, under
The turning world is torn asunder
As I breathe my lover in...

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  • 17 years ago

    by Poetvoices

    5/5, and as I said on the boards: This is a truly classic poem. It takes me back to great poet of a long time ago. Most of [your] poems do. It's one of those poems that I don't always understand what it means, but I know it represents something bigger than me.

  • 17 years ago

    by Twisted Heart

    Very well done. Love to read poems wrote in this type of style. This is really an exceptional piece.

  • 17 years ago

    by Momentary Relapse

    That was....whoa....I am really nearly speechless after I read this. The rhyme scheme had such a perfect rythym that was such a great hook. Really, really, cool-no-excellently cool. I loved the images that darkness around the one concept at the heart. It had such a....an...expressive way with it that it led to the excellent lines that progressed til the end. Simply put loved that from not only the words which were excellent but the entire piece. Great.
    ~Faith

  • 17 years ago

    by erratic hippie

    Want to know what i said out loud as i read this? "holy crap, aidyn...i mean *holy* frickin crap"
    the meter, the rhyme...the flow of it reminds me of The Raven, and the way it progresses, i mean - it's practically the ocean tide *itself* put to an eloquent array of words....was this the poem that made your computer go berzerk? 'cause if so...i sympathize....(with your *laptop*, that is... and the green fumes of jealousy that probably spurted from it when you wrote this)

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