Swimming In The Ocean Of Words
A Poem About Writing Poetry For My 1960th Story
I wanted to write a poem for this but the subject I chose I had already covered many times. I am very wary of repeating myself and then I started thinking from the twenty-six letters and ten numerical digits we can create millions of words that we can weave into sentences to create a tapestry of stories to share with our friends and people that we care for.
So I thought I would do an epic (for me) poem. The format will be a series of quatrains with an ABAB rhyme format and ten syllables per line and will consist of a few hundred words.
At this moment in time that is is only plan that I have for this. I had been tempted to try an Inverse poem, but I have decided to challenge myself on this.
The music is "Polyghost" by Bonobo
An Oddysey On An Ocean Of Words
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Looking Out From The Shore On This Ocean
I Am Very Scared To Push Out My Boat
I Know That I Must Leave My Docking Station
And Very Soon My Start Will Be Remote
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Sailing Off Into This Ocean Of Words
The Inspiration Of My Muse With Me
To Become Immersed In Currents And Curls
On Our Way Through A Literary Sea
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Here Is The Sea Where Homer Found His Words
Iliad, Oddysey Caught In His Nets
Scylla And Charybdis, Sirens And More
Helen Of Troy, And Greeks In The Gods' Debt
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We Sail And We Swim, Engulfed By Letters
With Which We Can Weave Wondrous Sentences
Mermaids And Selkies, Creatures That Matter
So We Can Create Truth And Pretences
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William Shakespeare Sailed These Waters Well
And Brought Us Many Great Plays And Sonnets
Shall I Compare Thee, Venus On The Shell
The Scottish Play, Winter's Tale And Hamlet
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All That You Read, In Books And Newspapers
Magazines, Pamphlets, Writers You Admire
All Of Them Come From These Wordly Waters
Brought Forth To You By These Weavers Of Words
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So Let Us Dive In, See What We Can Find
Some Of Us Explore Far Darker Waters
Mary Shelley Gave Us Her Frankenstein
Dracula Flew From The Pen Of Stoker
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This Sea Is Home To Every God And Myth
Every Mystical Being And Creature
Waiting To Be Freed By The Author's Whim
Within The Tale Whereby They Will Feature
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Beckett Made Us Wait So Long For Godot
Charles Dickens Subjected Us To Hard Times
Oscar Wilde, Sacred By The Canterville Ghost
Edgar Allen Poe, Doman Of Arnheim
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So Now We Are Sailing With These Writers
On This Great Ocean Of Words And Stories
To Make Everyone's Future Much Brighter
With The Words We Find For Future Glories
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Comments (9)
This was such a wonderful tribute! You did a fantastic job on this!
MIke, this is a wonderful poem that truly feels epic. I loved the interplay of myth with great authors from Homer to Poe. Great work!
Such a tribute to the weavers of words. Let us be set adrift among them.
What a fun celebration of your 1960th and an homage to some of the greats & inspo!
Nice, very well put together, very enjoyable to read. <3
Enoyed the ocean metaphor and the positivity in this one! Thanks Mike!
Well now. This is great, my friend. Well done.
Thatβs awesome π
That's beautiful!! I loved it a lot!