Me?



In ceaseless motion is the sea,
Expressing its many moods,
Wave - like the life within me,
It begins and then concludes.

A little ripple in the blue beyond,
That grows into a wave,
And breaks into a life prolonged,
Then flows back to its watery grave.

Crashing and beating at its confine,
Furious: slashing at its constraint,
Waves roaring devoid of time,
Echoing over the world - so faint.

One wave - inconspicuous on the sea,
Thus is life - could this be me?

About this poem

Written during a science lesson at school, while pondering about life. I was 16 years old and in grade 12. I started writing in 1963 and still write occasionally.

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Written on October 10, 1965

Submitted by Lithium on August 28, 2023

Modified by Lithium on October 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XCXC XDXD AA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 463
Words 101
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2

John Keith Anderson Holland

Casual life-long (Almost) poet and dabble in short stories as well. 75 Years old I living in Port Elizabeth South Africa. more…

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