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The Sock Drawer - 36. Reflective Of The Healing Isle

Elegy.

Reflective Of The Healing Isle

 

Call me Franz Kafka, for I swim

In a tangled and cloudy swamp,

Where every stretch of air is damp

And every single light is dim.

 

There are entities around me,

And likely they are humans, too.

They live and revel in this goo

That has birthed and raised and bound me.

 

They simply lead their lives in it,

While I wish only to escape

Each dark and daunting looming shape,

But I see all their pride's in it.

 

They see themselves succeed at large

While pushing other people down,

Don't even notice how they drown,

Groping for hold, a boat, a barge.

 

It has been the longest while and

I have been floating all my life –

Aimless I've been, still it was strife.

Till I washed up on this island.

 

I cannot leave this raging storm

Forever, but some peace and calm

I may taste through sweet, soothing balm

That weaves through you and keeps you warm.

 

The magic that makes you glimmer,

The mist in you smelling of pine,

The grass, rock and leaves with their shine,

When with you, all fear grows dimmer –

 

My island, let all this be mine.

I wish this could be für immer.

(German) für immer = forever
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Lisa

I'm interpreting the poem as the narrator being some kind of spirit or entity floating around the isle helping those in need.

 

I had to read this a few times before I thought I may have 'gotten' it. :)

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Doctor Oger
On 01/22/2017 12:26 PM, Lisa said:

I'm interpreting the poem as the narrator being some kind of spirit or entity floating around the isle helping those in need.

 

I had to read this a few times before I thought I may have 'gotten' it. :)

Interpret it any which way you see fit. Thank you for the review, Lisa. :)

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AC Benus

I can't tell you how much I like the 'pivot point' of this poem. The dark and phantom-lithe stanzas you begin with set up a gloomy unease (at least in this reader). They raise apprehension for what's next … but we soon perceive these specters to be ordinary people who seek gain at one another's expense.

 

Then the light breaks: "Till I washed up on this island."

 

Great Elegy. Thanks for posting it.

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Doctor Oger
On 01/24/2017 10:20 AM, AC Benus said:

I can't tell you how much I like the 'pivot point' of this poem. The dark and phantom-lithe stanzas you begin with set up a gloomy unease (at least in this reader). They raise apprehension for what's next … but we soon perceive these specters to be ordinary people who seek gain at one another's expense.

 

Then the light breaks: "Till I washed up on this island."

 

Great Elegy. Thanks for posting it.

My pleasure. And thank you so much.

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