may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

EMILY DICKINSON'S SEA

"Eternity sweeps around me like a sea"
"The Brain is deeper than the sea"
"Blue Sea!Wilt welcome me?"
"It is a Suffering to have a sea-
no care how Blue-between your Soul-and you"
Her mystic metaphoric sea is no Melville nor Conrad-
Rilke-"The world is large,but in us it is deep as the sea"
Claudel"the eye of the earth,its apparatus for looking @time"
"The beginning of man was salt sea"(Charles Olson)
"I must go down to the sea again"(Masefield)
Mythically ,in 2012,we have a filmic franchise(Pirates of the Caribbean)
Sea Resorts(Dolphin World/Sea World)
Cruise Ships floundering off Italy/getting nanoviruses near New Orleans
Plastic Sargasso Seas permanent as death
Depletion of fish stocks/dolphins grounding on beaches
Whales competing with nuclear submarines
Metaphor has failed with icebergs breaking/glaciers split
Polar bears drowning in Coca Cola promotions
Ill oceans,fish stocks belly up /destitute fisherfolk
Sea shanties used to sing of dragons,krakens,sea monsters
Now they petition United Nations to stop piracy/refugees
No sea is free.

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