Rebirth
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I
float
Upon
a bed of brine.
Salt
cradles every crevice.
Foam floats under my head.
The
salt cures and washes away
The
momentary strife of man’s infidelity,
A
moment held and remembered
From
time to time as salt licks and kisses its rememberances.
I
bleed the trauma of sadness
Replacing
her face with the faces of eyes washed clean.
I look up at the sun
As
it bakes my body anew
a crysalis reformed,
a crysalis reformed,
To
give birth again
In
salt and brine
And
replenish the water
With
life.
copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2013
Posted on International Women's Day
loveloveLOVE "bed of brine" and the use of "salt cures" and "salt licks."
ReplyDeleteThe ocean is so healing, isn't it?
This is a great piece.
de
www.whimsygizmo.wordpress.com
Thank you De! I loved your piece as well for this prompt!
DeleteTo give birth again
ReplyDeletein salt and brine.
She is real, I think. :)
I think so too! Thank you Margaret!
DeleteNice piece of writing here. A fitting tribute to a lovely work of art.
ReplyDeleteThank you Peggy!
DeleteBravo! The salt heals and contains the sadness as life continues to push on . . .
ReplyDeletewow...just shows the power of a woman. She is able to bear the brunt and yet smile...awesome!
ReplyDeleteI bleed the trauma of sadness...beautiful. In its salt healing flows...
ReplyDeleteI read the first stanza again and again, imagining myself floating with a pillow of foam. Such a compelling image.
ReplyDeleteK
This is so evocative. I really like the image of salt's lick and kiss of remembrance.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant and stunning imagery in this piece, Audrey. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove the images this poem provoked in my imagination :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love so many lines-well done!
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this is my fav:
"A moment held and remembered
From time to time as salt licks and kisses its rememberances."
Fascinating...I loved the imagery
ReplyDeletei like the rebirth in the end....that baked clean there is rebirth...
ReplyDeletereally a tightly woven poem of our disregard for nature and how it lives on in spite of us...
I was going to say almost the same as Brian. I like the progression in this poem & the rebirth in the ending.
ReplyDeleteI love how you played with the duality/plurality of both salt and sea.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful Audrey. I love the flow from the strife and the sadness to rebirth.
ReplyDelete"I bleed the trauma of sadness" is such a powerful line......I love the hope in the closing stanza.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful poem! I enjoyed the rebirth and thus the optimism of the end.
ReplyDeleteI remember this challenge ~ I specially like these lines :
ReplyDeleteTo give birth again
In salt and brine
And replenish the water
With life.
i liked the idea of rebirth from the sea. :)
ReplyDelete"As it bakes my body anew" what a perfect line.. and i like the connection with water. they usually associated water with women.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poem!
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