Submerged, I am god

#FBTF, dreams, existential, fantasy, water

Awake,
a windowpane remains up,
a foggy brown tank, and I lurk
inside an unfiltered reality,
my aquatic soul surviving,
simply waiting,
for the next underwater reverie.

In dreams,
I soak in ultramarine,
a hue that best becomes me,
and wisdom’s wrinkly waters
wade the edges of my eyes,
simply floating,
echoing an eternal silence.

Diving,
sky and sea connect in me,
and sea grass shifts the
the lifelines of my hands,
exposing shipwrecked feelings
resurfacing
on the cliffs of fingertips.

In R.E.M.,
purged of all guilt,
golden in my crowning cave,
I can not be dampened
by knots or degrees,
simply bubbling,
adrift in foamy reverie.

Set free.
The sea may be savior,
but submerged, I am god.

This poem was added to dVerse’s OLN(Open Link Night). Join this month’s reaping.

Flashback Friday # 37 Dreams asks, “Do you have any dreams you’d like to sell?” Well, this one’s on me.

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

Zdzisław Beksiński ~Artist of the untitled painting posted here

33 responses to “Submerged, I am god”

GraceoftheSun

Powerful piece “ Exposing shipwrecked feelings “, loved this description very much. Amazing.💕

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Priti

Beautifully written 😊 excellent description 😊thank you.💓

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Much appreciated, Priti. Searching for the divine and finding it buried within is something new in my life.
  
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Misky

What a wonderful perspective.

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Misky.
  
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msjadeli

I love this: “wisdom’s wrinkly waters”
and
“The sea may be savior,
but submerged, I am god.”
And we are gods in our dreamland aren’t we. Wonderful water-dream connection you make.

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you, Lisa. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of asking a question and the poem forms the answer for me. This one worked a bit like that for me.
  
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  1. msjadeli
    
    You have a kind and generous muse, Karen.
    
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  2. K.Hartless
    
    Thank you, I’ll be sure to tell her you said so. 😊
    
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Ron.

Awesome work indeed. I esp like the concept of shipwrecked feelings, and your imperviousness to knots and degrees. Major Bonus: hearing you read it. Thanjs!

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Ron. It was great to finally greet many of my favorite poets in the blogosphere. Here’s to more dreaming and poetry readings!
  
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Helen Dehner

Oh My! This is wonderful!

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Helen. It was wonderful to connect with so many talented poets today.
  
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sanaarizvi

This is incredibly potent! I especially love; “Diving, sky and sea connect in me, and seagrass shifts the lifelines of my hands,exposing shipwrecked feelings resurfacing on the cliffs of fingertips.”💝💝

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Sanaa. The shipwrecked feelings may be worth exploring deeper. May schedule a verbal dive to see what else that image can uncover. Great to hear you recite this afternoon.
  
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rothpoetry

A really interesting poem. Dreams do run like this. I really like this…
In dreams,
I soak in ultramarine

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you, Dwight. I do so love a soak. I think in this one, I’m already missing the sway of the sea.
  
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  1. rothpoetry
    
    Time for a trip back again!
    
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johnlmalone

I love these ‘underwater reveries’ ; I wish my mind could go off like this 🙂

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, John. Oh, I find your mind quite buoyant and it seems to drift quite deftly. 🙂
  
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  1. johnlmalone
    
    Lol … thanks 🙂
    
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Ingrid

I love this poem, and it was so great to hear you read! To me it speaks of the connection to our original home: our mother’s womb, and returning to that almost formless freedom.

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Ingrid. Yes, there must be something that draws me back to the safe place of floating, that call to the water, even in my dreams. Wonderful to connect.
  
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Brendan

Our salvation is a wet one indeed – submerged. I think it was Sandor Ferenszi who theorized that human yearning is at bottom a longing to return to waters life emerged from half a billion years ago. Our blood has the same salt content as sea water, our verses most rapt when awash. For a sea-farin’ soul, I loved the blue alembics here. Well done.

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lillian

Sooo glad you joined us at dVerse LIVE yesterday! I am a bit late in the actual reading….last night was my first time to host LIVE and I was a bit nervous. All went well until the timing snafu….we will get that remedied before the next one.

I really enjoyed this post….most especially smitten by these words:
“Diving,
sky and sea connect in me,
and seagrass shifts the
the lifelines of my hands,
exposing shipwrecked feelings
resurfacing
on the cliffs of fingertips.”

One thing….do please remember to always either Tag dVerse or put a statement at the end of your post that refers to dVerse….something like Posted today at https://dversepoets.com for OLN Live.
This was the only time, in all the prompts I’ve written for dVerse, that I forgot to mention the requirement to refer folks back to dVerse. It increases your readership and gets more people to dVerse at the same time as well. Usually, I also mention in my prompt, that if there’s not a Tag or mention back to dVerse, I will nicely nudge you to do so but if it’s not, I’ll have to delete the post from Mr. Linky. Because I didn’t put that in the post, I’m most happy to leave this on Mr. Linky. But maybe, you’ll add a Tag or mention of dVerse?

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merrildsmith

It was great to see you and hear you read this yesterday. The ending is especially powerful, but those shipwrecked feelings—so much there to be explored, I think.

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Merril. I have wanted to join the live reading for some time, so it was great to finally see and hear so many poets I admire.
  
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

I loved to meet you at the live event… and the image of being submerged is to me both haunting and laced with a sense of freedome.

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you kindly, Björn. It was so wonderful to meet you as well. I know it’s normal to be scared of deep water, but I’ve always felt more at home immersed.
  
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Sunra Rainz

This is a gorgeous poem, K.Hartless. I love the parallel between the depth of sleep consciousness and the ocean. Every choice word has been plucked ripe 🙂

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Why thank you ever so kindly, Sunra. I often dream in ultramarine. It was great to share a bit of that as I ponder the divine within.
  
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jahnavigouri13

I loved this. A beautiful and powerful poem. Every line is so beautiful!!💫

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