Poem (Life) In A Bottle

My life has been the poem I would have writ but I could not both live and utter it. - Thoreau

you wanted poetry

so i bled you the ink

suffering the stanzas

dripping allusions' implicit sweat

bestowing a sonnet's iambic couplet

exhaling spent meter and rhyme

not once but all the time

my soul the title

my life a personified idea

a heart beating with onomatopeia

never troubling yourself to comb my shore

thinking me nothing more than a simple metaphor

my existence a mere simile

you didn't even bother to read me

stuffed in a corked bottle

forever lost at sea

Author's Note

"Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

‘you didn't even bother to read me
stuffed in a corked bottle

forever lost at sea’
Great lines

This is so true !
we can be with our family members or partner or even our kids for a lifetime and they never really knew us or saw what we really are they just see their version of us or what they only want to see when there is so much more deep within us

Great write loved the metaphors !

Love the choice too of music

[Pete]

yes, thank you for sharing thoughts julie.

and the police with sting - very talented for sure ... :)

[willweb]

Though someday that bottle might just wash up on shore and be found by someone who appreciates poetry and at that point it will have been worth writing it. Nice one my friend.

[Pete]

hey, wouldn't that be a cool experiment? to put poetry in different things and places to see people's reaction. how 'bout a poem in the sky from a skywriting plane. hmm. thanks as always ww. ... :)

[willweb]

I knew someone who wrote poems and tacked them up around the park in the town where she lived, just to see if any were still there the next day. She did this often I heard and after while, people looked forward to finding her poetry.

[Pete]

cool, good for her and the readers too! ... :)