Sediment of Sentiment

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by TrippinBTM, Sep 3, 2006.

  1. TrippinBTM

    TrippinBTM Ramblin' Man

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    Finally something recently written:


    Sediment of Sentiment

    The ocean of my soul
    rains constantly down
    a steady fall of debris,
    the sediment of sentiment.

    It meets the bottom,
    far from the turbulence
    of the raving waves
    of my surface emotions;

    lays still, compressing,
    the formation of new layers;
    the bedrock building up
    over the years, forgotten.

    Maybe someday they will uplift,
    an orogeny of the spirit,
    exposing to the world
    my buried fossils of feeling

    that lie hidden in my layers.
    but then they'll only be broken,
    eroding into new sand and silt
    set to settle again in the sea.


    *orogeny: the process of mountain building
     
  2. CrucifiedDreams

    CrucifiedDreams Members

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    I love the metaphors you used in this. Great choice of words too. I feel it, and I can relate to these feelings.
     
  3. teh-horace

    teh-horace for your pleasure

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    something bothers me about "raving waves" i feel like it should be "raging waves"

    but at the same time i really like the phrase "raving waves"


    so yeah...i suppose you can just cast this comment aside

    sorry :&
     
  4. TrippinBTM

    TrippinBTM Ramblin' Man

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    haha, i kind of went with the rhyme, but I thought the same thing you did.
     
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