nedful things

It is amazing how the sea can both give one peace or be defiant.
I have often thought of it as a metaphor for life after death. Large, vast, unknown, and infinite (at least when you look across it)

Have you ever noticed that the ocean changes to fit your mood? Or do we fit our mood to the mood of the sea? I often wonder.

deep indeed. like the ocean.

It changes with the wind, but it is still governed by the laws of God and nature. Kind of like the cycles of human behavior and even God...changes with the season but is reliably stable and dominant so that one can almost predict what it will do.
the waves will recede the waves will advance.

Setting analysis aside for once, Ned, reading this was just a completely uplifting experience. Wonderful, lyrical writing, so deft and delicate. One to keep, if I may.

Ken

http://strangerken.blogspot.com

Thank you Ken. I don't know if it could withstand much analysis, it was really only a feeling. Just the feelings that I had to write.

I don't like to disagree with you, Ned, but there really are some lovely and intriguing lines in the poem. What about "We have no peace in us today/ the sea and I", or "I echo their unsatisfied cries" or "I launch my soul in a bottle/with a grain of salt/and a grain of sand". There's more than a little to think about here, if you ask me, and it all adds to the quality of the poem.

Ken

http://strangerken.blogspot.com

Ken,
I appreciate your comment and what I appreciate most I think is that you liked some of the lines that I liked best myself. They were ones that spoke to me so I am glad they spoke to you too.

I launch my soul in a bottle
with a grain of salt
and a grain of sand

I feel that profoundly.

I think if anyone asked me which lines would you most identify with Liz, I would have chosen those.

I identify with them too.

I, too, particularly like the lines mentioned above by ME Strauss. It is very effective the way you used space to talk about yourself, centering "I am" and "the sea and I." I chose the name "Green-Eyed Lady" for my original blog, older than the "Writing one", because of the lyrics to that Song by Sugarloaf. "Green-Eyed Lady/ocean lady.... I'm also reminded of "Time in a Bottle" when I see your bottle reference that is so often used with sea or shore talk, but you do so in a unique manner. See, your poem brings out the music in me! Thx :)
SilvermOOn-

Silver, I always love a musical comment! You also always leave very thoughtful comments. I appreciate your readership greatly.

Your welcome. I look forward to the times you come to my blog. I have always smiled at your "Shameless self-promotion" because your work needs no ad, for us to comment.
SilvermOOn

I once lived in Waikiki. In a place called Porpoise Grove, I never saw a porpoise there but we do have many in the ocean. I wonder what would a grove of porpoises look like. Now I live in a place where there are loads of dolphins.
Glenni

Glenni,
I didn't know they grew porpoises in groves, I thought they raised them on porpoise farms.

Dif you know that dolphins have no porpoise in life? They do everything for the halibut.

Smiling (but not whaling) with laughter with all my heart and (sole) at a joke I've heard often from a friend. Nice way to end an evening. :) - SilvermOOn

Lovely poem. You drew me in with feet shod in swirls and pulled me out the other end when you tossed the bottle away.

I also enjoyed your porpoiseful humor.

moose
http://findmeabluebird.blogspot.com

moose,
I am unwillingly late in replying, for the first time in a year I was kept from my blog for an extended period.

Thank you for your kind comment. The sea always draws me in.