Taken by the Sea, Wizard & Faery Award Winner Options

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Taken by the Sea

Walking along the seashore,
my footsteps make
light impressions
in wet sand.
Behind me,
turning tide erases all traces.

Cool breeze brushes my face;
ruffles curling strands of hair.
Gossamer garments cling,
accentuating body contours.

You’re waiting:
a distant figure,
riding white horses,
cresting waves.

I move towards you:
seduced into deeper water
by unseen currents.

Time slows;
I feel you near.

© Nina 2006

Nina

[Psyche]

Hi Nina !  :sun:

This is one of your very best ! Love it, and I'm fascinated by the different levels of interpretation you've allowed the reader.

I imagine a mythical legend, maybe some maiden lured into the sea by the great Poseidon, or else by some other minor god of the oceans. For once I wasn't stumped by "white horses", I knew they were a kind of wave.

I remember a poem about "riding white horses", when I was a child !!

Beautiful imagery, Nina.

And now that I re-read the title, I think your poem could also refer to suicide. The girl is in a kind of trance and is walking to her death in the sea, by drowning; but as she's having visions (she could be mentally unbalanced through sorrow), she thinks she's seeing white horses and a distant figure, maybe a lover who died and is beckonning her towards him. Wow, how sad !

A famous Argentine poet, Alforsina Storni, walked into the sea in this fashion, after a broken love affair. But she even wrote a poem about it first, then did it...  :(   In the last line of her poem, she says "if ...... calls, tell him I went away", or something to that effect.

Thanks for sharing this, Nina,
hugs,
Sylvia  :butterfly: