project one poems
The Sea
One step,
And the cold overwhelmed my senses
One breath,
And the salt filled my lungs
One glance,
And the waves washed away my thoughts
And yet in the deep I heard a roar
Ever so slightly getting louder,
A pounding that never ceased to grow
As my thoughts came back to me I asked myself
Why,
This never ending torture
Why,
This cultivating disgust
Why,
This ever so somber despair
Why,
Was I so scared of something so beautiful
My Savior
Never ending, the noise, the thoughts, and the comments
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Never ending, was the marching in my chest and the weight of my worries on my shoulders
Never ending was the doubt I so strongly held on to
I’ve sat and watched the days go by never really moving never really thinking never really making an effort.
As those around me suffer I just think that I’m a burden, My problems aren’t worth sharing
They talk and I get lost in self afflicting thoughts
They talk and my mind gets off track
They talk and I slowly drift away
Then the light appeared
my prince in shining armour
My savior
A lamb and a lion seated next to him
He talks and tells me i’m worth loving
He talks and listens to my problems
He talks and says take my hand
And I did
Never ending, the love he gives me
Never ending, the joy I receive
Never ending, is my hope for the future
Never ending, is my life because I believe in him
Artist statement
My first piece “The Sea” was based off Ezra Pound’s piece “coming of war”. When I first read the poem I really liked the fact that I felt pulled in to the setting of the piece even if during my first time reading it I didn't really understand the meaning. I wanted to emulate the sense of beauty within the ugliness of the situation, he uses words to convey a beautiful story about an ugly situation. My second piece “My Savior” was also based off a Pound poem by the name of “The Return”. I saw this poem used repeating words to convey time. also used lots of imagery to show the importance of the subject matter. When writing these It was hard to put my thoughts into word that were as elegant as pounds were without copying it. I ended up using the thesaurus a lot and I reworked the structure of my sentences a good amount as well. Honestly going into this I was pretty skeptical, I’ve never really liked poetry but the words just kinda started to come out and I really enjoyed this. I also learned that if I wanted to grow in my writing I needed to try something new. I've never really been open or talked about personal things such as my fears and my personal walk in my faith as a christian and being able to but these into my poems have been really freeing.
