RE: "Into The Ocean Where Darkness Shines" --- original poem
I had to read your poem multiple times because of its complexity. I'm probably very off but here is what I got from it: In life we frequently get complacent and idled. When we were young, we had spirit, but it got diminished by self doubt which led to stagnation. Then comes a point where we get restless in a limiting pond, with the need to seek something deeper. The water calls but the path we have to take is not straight but very winding with obstacles along the way. After numerous challenges, we finally reach the water. Within its depths are the answers we seek. It is the ancient beginnings of life.
I love your pictures. It speaks of natures imperfections that come together into a beautiful picture of constant motion, life, death and rebirth and of peace and contentment. Thank-you for your very deep post.
That's a really interesting interpretation! I love how everyone can read the same words and come to different conclusions. In fact the best writing leaves enough ambiguity for the reader's imagination to run free, something I want to get better at (at times I think my writing is too dense and in that case might not connect with the reader as well)
Another big reason I want to hear outside perspectives is oftentimes I'm not sure of what certain things "mean" that I write! That is to say, I know they are fitting, and purposeful, yet sometimes it is still a mystery since the phrases can come through flashes of inspiration.
I really like how you took the fragmentary nature of the poem and organized into something more resembling a narrative. Your explanation almost makes more sense than my poem, lol! It also clarified the meaning of this piece to me further. Writing to me is an exploration... a way of processing the events of life, and attempting to make sense of it all. So when someone else reads it, they reflect the meaning back to you through their consciousness, and I find this to be a very dep and beautiful process. So I appreciate you for participating and enriching me with your perspective :)
D-pend, thank-you for your wonderful and insightful comment. It took me multiple times to absorb your poem because I wanted to grasp what you were truly trying to say. I always try to respect the writer by taking the time to envision the words and feel the energy from it. I am sort of like an empath who can sense things and feel what a person is feeling. That is why I gravitate to certain people. I can only interact with innately good core people and will avoid negative energy.
Your poem drew me in because I could feel the need for you to find the pure purpose of existence. It felt that your had to work you way through past inhibitions, past self doubts and make your way through obstacles that life throws into your path, until you find the purity of water/ocean that holds buried within it, the hidden secrets of the ancients who know the purpose of being. It is then you will have enlightenment.
You have such a deep essence that comes out in spurts, that wants to be heard. Your interpretation sometimes can be nebulous but in a way it is meant to reach only those who take the time to look behind the words and find meaning. I think it is partly your way of finding special people who can connect on another level of understanding with you.
You have a beautiful core with a multitude of energies that really have to come out. I feel in my being, that the more you express either via poems, music, art, etc. you will find that inner understanding and peace. It took Buddha an eternity to find enlightenment but when he did, he became all knowing. Keep expressing d-pend and you will eventually find your own! I support you in your march to inner peace and being!.....Cabbagepatch