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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a poem about the sea that does not use the words
Deep,
Blue,
Shimmering,
Cold.
Synonyms and creativity will help you find ways to convey the enormousness and beauty of the ocean without using these common descriptors.
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(TW: suicide)
A vast world – Stretching before and below. Unfathomable expanse waiting in inky darkness to welcome me.
Fear holds me fast. Fear pushes me forward. I adjust the bulk surrounding my body – the heft that will carry me to my final fall.
Waves and rocking work in tandem with my heartbeat – here faster, slower now. I am already one with the sea.
Splash.
The frigid blanket embraces me. Home. At last
The cool, shiny water. A glimmer of my imagination.
How I wish I could be, A fish or dolphin, How wonderful, That I could see, Through the eyes, Of a wonderful world.
Never thought I could dream, A dream so worth it, A dream that would please, My undying imagination.
(Sorry to torture y’all… Had to write something?)
Howling, Raging, Spinning on the radar like a rainbow pinwheel At a pride parade;
A war-like tempest Flanked by white hot Swords of lightning Surges toward the coast - Vexated - like an oceanic Titan.
Burning saltwater Swirls around its judgmental eye, As its thunderous voice Demands that we answer For our abuse Of this dying planet.
A world within our world, That few of us have been, Submerged below the surface, Mysteries never seen
A myriad of corals, Of creatures we don’t know, A place so full of wonder, But few would like to go
Many lives been lost, Taken by the waves, Pulled beneath the surface, The seabed now their graves
Vessels float on top, Not knowing what’s below Transporting many goods, Some fast and some so slow
Waters that surround us, Threatening our coasts, Many know of tales, Of ships that hold some ghosts
Endless, true, rising, and fatal. These are the things that you are. I can’t see your end at the horizon. I can’t find land. True because your heartless. Senseless and non-empathetic. Rising because of us. So blind to your truth and importance. Bound by laze and progress: Oxymoron, but correct.
Finally, fatal. Fatal because your endlessness could drive a lesser man mad. Fatal because your truth could strike so precisely; deep into someone’s heart. Fatal because we’re killing ourselves with you; Drowning our shores in your blanket of cool water.
Nevertheless, we need you. We need aqua’s glorious life to prevail. Just don’t go easy on us. You’ll be dead if you do.
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