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All Over Again
Isn't the sea a fist with the earth inside?
When capped with white outrage and egged by roars,
waves can corkscrew through breakwaters with ease.
After the frothing, it disappoints though,
the roar vanishes, apologetic,
it cedes the sea to ship horns and seagulls.
We forget what we fought for, to march anew
is new, not remembered, but we will roar
once more, we are capped again with outrage,
there are ships to upend, dictatorships,
islands to reach, children to feed, after
the end of every ebb, like the sea, we heave,
we hope to win a beachhead, perhaps an inch
more of the shore, with every wave, open
a few more minds before we have to do it again.
When capped with white outrage and egged by roars,
waves can corkscrew through breakwaters with ease.
After the frothing, it disappoints though,
the roar vanishes, apologetic,
it cedes the sea to ship horns and seagulls.
We forget what we fought for, to march anew
is new, not remembered, but we will roar
once more, we are capped again with outrage,
there are ships to upend, dictatorships,
islands to reach, children to feed, after
the end of every ebb, like the sea, we heave,
we hope to win a beachhead, perhaps an inch
more of the shore, with every wave, open
a few more minds before we have to do it again.
Published 28th Jun 2022
| Edited 24th Feb 2023
Author's Note
DEMOCRACY isn't something you launch and let be. lt is tended to, watched over, nursed when ill, defended when threatened, and then bequeathed to guardians and believers.
My words and voice; photos by Pixabay
My words and voice; photos by Pixabay
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3rd Feb 2023 11:04am
I always look for an offering with the least comments.
Here's one. 4 likes. 4 reading list entries. 192 reads. 0 comments.
So I've read it and reread it and it is very descriptive but very difficult to understand. Clever?
It seems to be an analogy between the sea and some good fight going on although I stumbled at the comma before ' dictatorships '
So one wonders what is happening? What islands to reach, what beachhead in what war, and who is it who wants to open who's minds before these obscure
' we ' have to do it again? Lots of questions in this enigmatic piece but not many answers.
Regards from Rew.
Here's one. 4 likes. 4 reading list entries. 192 reads. 0 comments.
So I've read it and reread it and it is very descriptive but very difficult to understand. Clever?
It seems to be an analogy between the sea and some good fight going on although I stumbled at the comma before ' dictatorships '
So one wonders what is happening? What islands to reach, what beachhead in what war, and who is it who wants to open who's minds before these obscure
' we ' have to do it again? Lots of questions in this enigmatic piece but not many answers.
Regards from Rew.
3rd Feb 2023 12:12pm
Thank you, Rew. That was very helpful. I should spend time in fixing this one then.
