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,
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
for Toads

And posted for Poets United Pantry

Comments

  1. loveloveLOVE "bed of brine" and the use of "salt cures" and "salt licks."
    The ocean is so healing, isn't it?
    This is a great piece.


    de
    www.whimsygizmo.wordpress.com

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    1. Thank you De! I loved your piece as well for this prompt!

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  2. To give birth again
    in salt and brine.

    She is real, I think. :)

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  3. Nice piece of writing here. A fitting tribute to a lovely work of art.

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  4. Bravo! The salt heals and contains the sadness as life continues to push on . . .

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  5. wow...just shows the power of a woman. She is able to bear the brunt and yet smile...awesome!

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  6. I bleed the trauma of sadness...beautiful. In its salt healing flows...

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  7. I read the first stanza again and again, imagining myself floating with a pillow of foam. Such a compelling image.
    K

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  8. This is so evocative. I really like the image of salt's lick and kiss of remembrance.

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  9. Brilliant and stunning imagery in this piece, Audrey. Beautiful!

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  10. Love the images this poem provoked in my imagination :)

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  11. Beautiful! I love so many lines-well done!
    :D
    this is my fav:
    "A moment held and remembered
    From time to time as salt licks and kisses its rememberances."

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  12. Fascinating...I loved the imagery

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  13. i like the rebirth in the end....that baked clean there is rebirth...
    really a tightly woven poem of our disregard for nature and how it lives on in spite of us...

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  14. I was going to say almost the same as Brian. I like the progression in this poem & the rebirth in the ending.

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  15. I love how you played with the duality/plurality of both salt and sea.

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  16. This is beautiful Audrey. I love the flow from the strife and the sadness to rebirth.

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  17. "I bleed the trauma of sadness" is such a powerful line......I love the hope in the closing stanza.

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  18. A beautiful poem! I enjoyed the rebirth and thus the optimism of the end.

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  19. I remember this challenge ~ I specially like these lines :

    To give birth again
    In salt and brine
    And replenish the water
    With life.

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  20. i liked the idea of rebirth from the sea. :)

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  21. "As it bakes my body anew" what a perfect line.. and i like the connection with water. they usually associated water with women.

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