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The Ethereal Life

March 27, 2011
By emphantle BRONZE, Rhinebeck, New York
emphantle BRONZE, Rhinebeck, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Endow the living with the tears you squander on the dead".


You are bound to be blinded by the sun,
when your nose is turned at the sky.
Your inability to open the blinds forced me to dream,
And so I dreamt about swimming as I trudged along.
I hoped to be accepted by the silent fish, and finally find a smooth-scaled friend.
How inviting these swimmers were, with their unfaltering gazes!
Not at all like the distant apparatuses of my human acquaintances,
whose hard-shells had made the hills of my life grow steeper,
until a day felt like a tired lifetime.
But down here, where there is no weight and no concern,
Everything is finally as it should be.
I am now living the dream,
Down where the mud of the earth is more appealing than the dirt of your mouth.

The author's comments:
Emily Dickinson's poem "Endow the Living with the Tears" - which is my favorite of hers - inspired this poem. I hope people get a similar message from this as they did from her poem; lives can be ended in the blink of an eye, so you should appreciate people while they are here with us.

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on Apr. 30 2011 at 10:20 am
emphantle BRONZE, Rhinebeck, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Endow the living with the tears you squander on the dead".

Thank you, much appreciated :)

Lucy said...
on Apr. 28 2011 at 6:05 pm
While reading this poem, I felt like I was floating in a sea of warm water.  Well written!