Growing, Leaving, Arriving (Monday Poetry Potluck Poem)

This poem was borne from a prompt from Jingle's Monday Poetry Potluck.

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I felt you in my womb: a salty
cradle to more than my children
I know for you still rumble sometimes
I feel your spirit kicking from
inside my walls, messages
of cycles of healing of
growing of leaving of arriving

ancient travelers leave their
hats on the racks by the entry way
exchanging light for darkness
the leap from the cliffs above
into the home of the sea lions
cavoring below I welcome

the fog the sunset the light mist
the unseeing clarity that comes
and goes with the tides, in and out
and large and mottled against my skin
we greet each other once again

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Comments

[Jingle]

beautiful,
love the water and the sunset in your images...
your poem makes it more profound to be there...
Happy Potluck!

[Teresa]

Interesting! Makes one think.

[bkmackenzie]

I felt you in my womb: a salty cradle ...lovely image of the water that gives us and is our life blood....nice write...bkm

[Shigune Matsui]

I think that it is cool! Love it for its visual words! Here's mine http://thelunaticsdiary.blogspot.com/2010/10/wimderfehl-and-lovelorn.html

[dasuntoucha]

...the fog the sunset the light mist
the unseeing clarity that comes
and goes with the tides, in and out
and large and mottled against my skin
we greet each other once again...

...beautiful lines...serene piece of writing.

[Shashi]

Beautiful... leaving,arriving, healing and growing... I liked the metaphor of hat... Thanks for sharing...

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[Amanda]

Your words have touced me...I loved every word from start to we greet each other once again!! Awesome writing and so very well penned my friend...thanks so much for linking with Potluck!! Hugs xxx

[fiveloaf]

nice..

[Lukepraterswordsalad.wordpress.com]

Ah, now this is beautiful, Julie. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you. And I see you too write villanelles, rondel/triolet/rondeaus? Do you do sonnets also? Villanelles my favourite. I have yet to do a pantoum, but will soon I hope. I think the crazy sestina can wait. Let's not forget the free-verse and blank-verse... if I get too obsessed with form I start writing from my head and not my heart.

Warmest Salad

Luke @ WordSalad

[Talon]

"a salty cradle" - what a fabulous image!

What an amazing poem. Enjoyed it immensely!