by amanda wallin
Member since:
August 30, 2006

Diary

September 17, 2006 06:58 AM EDT (Updated: September 17, 2006 06:59 AM EDT)
views: 58 | comments: 16

Dear Diary,


I crash into the iceberg
Oceans spill within my veins
A flood of thoughts pour forth
Salty tears; tides of insight
Snapshots of the ebb and flow
Immortalize these colored moments
Of angst, love, poetic verse
Framed in a sea of journeys

A wavering camera

Photograph the ripples of my mind

 

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Comments: 16

Richard Melendez Sep 17, 2006, 7:29am EDT
Amanda... thank you for letting me view your photographic words of muse and inspiration.
Amanda,
Again, thank you.... :)
William M. Sep 17, 2006, 8:23am EDT
I like it.
Nathan Schauer Sep 17, 2006, 9:04am EDT
Ironically framed as a diary entry. The poet addresses the diary as an entity and thus addresses the poem that is being written. The catastrophic events of life - resembling the sinking of a ship - are recorded by a "wavering camera" as "ripples". Writing does place our world in the a greater context that reduces the significance of our own life. So the poem is at once a record and a complaint about the reduction of experience.
Shelly W. Sep 17, 2006, 9:19am EDT
I love your diary of words, you describe them well,good one,kiddo!
Apryl Just Apryl Sep 17, 2006, 9:24am EDT
Wonderful Word Art !!
John F Walter Sep 17, 2006, 9:53am EDT
Not too much to add to Nathan's comment, he has shown acute insight in his subtle analysis of the text commenting on itself.
I will only say that that artfulness of this passionate dithyramb in its extended use of the aquatic metaphor from Titanic to brain waves does not diminish its intensity one jot.
Tiffanie C. Sep 17, 2006, 1:23pm EDT
you rock!
Kathleen M. Sep 17, 2006, 2:28pm EDT
excellent!
Shaunee C. Sep 17, 2006, 4:41pm EDT
excellent work.I can see what is happing through reading what you write
Edward Nudelman Sep 17, 2006, 5:31pm EDT
superb, Amanda. Really nice.
Kathryn E. Sep 17, 2006, 6:20pm EDT
What a gift you have, Amanda. Are you a leftie, by any chance? You write so much from the wholistic gestalt...lovely.
Marne S. Sep 17, 2006, 7:47pm EDT
I'm here! Your beauty has not waned! You write as gloriously as ever!
Synchronicity W. Sep 17, 2006, 10:52pm EDT
i can not only feel this...i can picture it too. the best image for me is the wavering camera...i picture a slightly off angle perception. quite nice...
Carol Roach Sep 17, 2006, 11:32pm EDT
lovely,

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