Ocean & Shore
Entry to Real Poetic's Mini Contest
My sea
Burgeons each day
Didn't know how to contain it
Until I became a poet.
...
I expanded my shores
More room to crash on
More expressively
All because I have more room for my sea
...
Okay, if you didn't get the metaphor, then I will be happy to explain it.
Rumi said, "Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes, will hit the shore."
The basic metaphor here is that by writing poetry, I learned more words. I learned to express my feelings better. I expanded my shores, so there was more space for the sea to crash on.
I could suddenly tell people more about my emotions, more expressively, because I started writing poetry.
And that is how poetry has changed my life.
About the Creator
Cezanne Libellen
I am an ailurophile, xocolatophile, linguaphile, lexophile, and a bibliophile. Writing is my passion. I am currently working on a novel. Subscribe and share my stories if you want to see more of my work!
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Comments (4)
One cannot fight the tide or contain the waves. I think language and writing is more like ships and sumbarines with which we explore the ocean's expanse and plumb its depths. This was a great little verse, Cezanne! 😀
A superb poem on the art of writing, which deploys a vivid natural-world metaphor with tremendous skill. It's absolutely true there's nothing sadder to see than someone unable to articulate their emotional experience, and I wish more poets would write about the wonderful enabling power of their craft. Words are the tools by which we become able to express our feelings, and in so doing understand them too. I hope this poem did very well in the mini-challenge!
Gosh this was so beautiful! I loved the way you explained the metaphor!
This is just wonderfully written. Also I loved your blurb at the end. Well done.