Sea of Love

Could I drown in your essence

would you throw me overboard

should you let the waves take me

will you overflow my vessel

let me coast upon your fiery seas

ebb me from the shores of erosion

engulf me with impetuous high tides

emerge my senses in salty euphonic tides

undertows will not break my lifeline

rip currents fetch my spilling breakers
uprush like a hurricane upon a jetty

crest your summit into the depths 

volcanic hotspot of seamount eruptions

crash me to your shores of surging breakers
fully submerged in your tidal wave
calm winds buoy me to shore

Reviews

[Sheila Kline]

Wow! The salt water is certainly calling my name if I get to get lost in it like this!
The waters of seduction in this sea are rolling at a tsunami pace!!

Yes, volcanic hotspot of seamount eruptions, come and crash me to those breakers!!
Steamy mist is rising!!!

[Frieda P]

Whoa Sheila, I think you left some heat behind on my thread! Thanks so much!

[KAOlmsted]

Holy cats, you really know how to work a metaphor, lady. This knocked my socks off. Every line a winner.

[Michael G.]

Excellent.
Another reason life vests wrap around the heart and support the head, so it can stay above the fray... supposedly.

[SHEEMA HUQ]

this poem reads like the ambivilant thoughts of a mermaid as she collides with the challenging sea, nicely written

[Frieda P]

I like your interpretation, thanks SHEEMA.

[Baby Ricochet]

Holy s**t she got all fucked up and fell off a boat. Nice metaphors

[Frieda P]

Ha!

[Monster ^.^]

The sea and a lover... quite a metaphor. Nicely done.

[Frieda P]

Grazie, see I'm not always crude and disturbed. ;-)

[Monster ^.^]

I see that. a good writer knows the difference of opposite feelings and is able to make it as if he/she feels either :)

[rubie]

I'm a sucker for poems that mix ocean imagery with passion and sensuality. And you've done it beautifully here. There's something so powerful about watching the ocean's power and majesty as the waves crash against the shore; it's humbling. The same is true about passion. To be swept away on the waves of lust leaves one just a weak in the knees....

Wonderful piece!

[Frieda P]

What a divine review...made me mellow all over again as when I wrote this piece. Thanks so much rubie!

[Frieda P]

Ha, were you writing that with a 'down the shore' attitude...I read your profile after I wrote this.....an English teacher eh? I guess I did alright then. ;-)

[rubie]

Yup. A fellow "Jersey Girl" who loves "Down the shore"!!! And yes, "you done good"...lol

[Frieda P]

lol gotta be from josiey ro recognize that phrase, ever been to Silver Beach?

[rubie]

Never been, but I know where it is. Just north of Lavallette, right? Been to Seaside many times as well as Lavallette, but I have friends who have a place in Deal, so I go there mostly.

[Frieda P]

Oh nice....love that place, yeah too old for Seaside now, ha.

[rubie]

me too. i like the slower pace these days....Ha!

[Frieda P]

Gawd it's terrible getting older, weren't we just making out under the Boardwalk? lol

[rubie]

Haha! So true.....memories of my misspent youth in Wildwood!! :)

[Frieda P]

Ha ha, Wildwood with the 'family' of course!

[rubie]

Of course....I knew you'd "get it"!!!

[Frieda P]

LOL, hey did you think I was kidding about joisey!?

[rubie]

I knew you weren't!! Nobody kids about Joisey!! "You from joisey??? I'm from joisey!!!"

[Frieda P]

I know you've had sliders, and been at the diner at 3 AM eating taylor ham & egg sandwiches....

[rubie]

you better believe that! "they're jerseylicious"! BTW, can you imagine anyone reading this thread? "Those Jersey girls are at it again!" Haha!

[Frieda P]

Ha they already bust my chops about certain things, no worries! Nobody around here say's 'murderlize'...I don't get it. ;-)

[LA Lorena]

no, I can't imagine anyone else actually reading this thread. insert eye roll here. ;)

[rubie]

...and if anyone says anything to me, I just threaten to "go all jersey girl on their a*s"....they back off.

[Frieda P]

Oh gawd, leave her alone, she's new here LA...meet the WC's official seductress LA, rubie.... ;-)

[LA Lorena]

we've met Frieda. I was coming in here to save her from you!

[Frieda P]

Phaahahaha, funny LA!

[quinfinn]

who are you two kidding? you're both wacky as a naked Superbowl party! rubie, you're safe, just dont let em in your head.....

[LA Lorena]

seriously Rubie, beware. We all started off fairly sane and normal, then Frieda came along..........................

[LA Lorena]

Quinny, don't make me bring out the silencer again!

[quinfinn]

are you kidding? why do ya think i came here?!!!

[Frieda P]

Ha is he still wearing your panties on his head?

[Frieda P]

...and HEY LA!

[rubie]

I've taken a peek at LA's page already, thanks Frieda! And Frieda, no need for the rescue, but thanks anyway. I can hold my own and we Jersey chicks stick together.

[rubie]

Sorry! Meant to say "LA, no need for the rescue!" Sorry, Frieda!!! lol

[quinfinn]

i already ate those

[LA Lorena]

I'm a Jersey girl by proxy, isn't that right FP?

[rubie]

That's cool with me....

[Frieda P]

Damn straight, you got the tude going on!

[Kaylor Mason]

This is the kind of love that quiets a man's heart and puts him at peace--and then slams him against the breakers so hard his neck can snap. Love like this is powerful beyond measure; I pray we all get to bathe in these waters, even if for a single moment

[Frieda P]

Now that's romantic! What a lovely thought, except for the neck snapping part....but I get it. ;-)

[Jibey]

Lovely photo and your certainly exploit the maritime imagery to the full... I felt a sense of wave upon wave, of wet showers and a wash of feeling...

Nice... your words sweep along like a strong current...

[Frieda P]

What a delightful and sensuous review, grazie!

[WhiteWillow]

Powerful (and sensual) analogies, lyrically written. A beautiful piece.

[Frieda P]

Thanks for the lovely review White Willow.