“i don’t like being stationary / i like the rocky wavy motion of the sea”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday, another missed sea poem:


“Exultation is the going,” Emily Dickinson

Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses—past the headlands—
Into deep Eternity—

Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?


Of course, this could just be a symbolic sea ...

---L.

Subject quote from I Used to Be a Sailor, Tracy Chapman.

Comments

[cmcmck]

She so often says so much with so little.

[larryhammer]

Word.

[sovay]

Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?

If it's not a metaphor, it's a really neat inversion of Kipling's "The Sea and the Hills."

[larryhammer]

It is indeed -- one that works even if it is metaphor.