A Vessel and Home

Hello everyone, having a good life, eh?

As what I did before in my previous posts, today I wanted to share my love for photography with all of you, with a little twist on the poem. For today’s post I decided to post my own poem (although, it’s more of a lyric). I’m not a perfect or good poet, but I will surely try to be one of the good ones, or maybe even reach perfection someday in the future, hopefully. But,that’s the beauty of art isn’t it? It creates beauty upon imperfectness (well, in my opinion, at least). Before I say anything further, I wanted to apologize to you all for my imperfect english. I am trying to improve it day by day by writing and speaking. So if you have any thoughts on my writing and my poem, please tell me.

The picture I wanted to share today is a picture of a pink sunset in a beach. Just as simple as that. I am trying to exhibit a sense of balance here in this picture, as my poem will describe. The poem I made for this picture is called ‘A Vessel and Home’. I wrote it exactly after I took the picture I show you today. I try to ask the audience to harm the nature no more, well, it’s a cliche, but I think it’s a relevant message to deliver these days.

So, here it is, I hope you like it.

A Vessel and Home
by Abram Abisai Prasetyawan (2019)

Fire, the travelling lamp
Burns, yet never kills
Water, broader than a swamp
Plenty, yet never fills

Not the Heavens nor the Hell
It's our world we long to dwell
Home to the fire
Vessel of the water

Bring Her no sorrow!
It's a place we only borrow
A space to weep
As stones gone steep
A lodging of joy
As glee plays no coy