To Realms Beyond

Disturb us...

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  Audio voice-over available here if that’s your jam. Otherwise, read on. ;)

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  Disturb us - where losing sight of land, 
  We shall find the stars. 
  Where electric light and glowed up sky
  Loses itself, in the dark frontier
  Where great lights have burned 
  Before our bulbous ones ever did. 
  Where craning our necks, we thirst upward
  Where stars sift deeper, 
  Through layers of miled night, up, up, 
  And our eyes seek the celestial sight. 
  
  Disturb us - where losing sight of land, 
  We shall ride the tide. 
  Where the chanced current rocks our cradle, 
  And fortuned fate charts the path we take. 
  Where wind fills our sails, 
  Spirited, blowing where it wishes. 
  Where we let the salt sit on our lips
  And we taste and see
  Through bounded eyes boundless sea, deep, deep, 
  And its mysteries that lie beneath. 
  
  Disturb us - where losing sight of land, 
  We shall find the life. 
  Where love is found in the lap and lull, 
  And the storms are borne, and won, and sung. 
  Where we cast our nets
  And they break in faith with fish we reap. 
  Where adventure sights with broader scope, 
  Where hearts beat hardy, 
  And we sail further on, in, in, 
  And our Captain helms to realms beyond. 
  
  
  ~ By Sierra Westerholm
  
  Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
  
  Poem original to me, myself, and I - zero AI or brainless involvement was used. 

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I’m back!!! It’s been over a month since I last posted.. I had a big insurance licensing exam the first week of April, and needless to say, doing insurance during the day, and then studying insurance during the night, was NOT conducive to creative reflection. I felt completed dried up. I jotted down a line or two here and there when I could, but nothing worth-while came to me.

I DID get a painting done, so that was good! That was my celebration after my exam. And I DID pass the exam, so that was good. I think? (Don’t tell anybody this, but sometimes I feel like a fraud - an artist masquerading as an insurance agent…if you only knew…)

But 1) after painting and reminding myself that creativity is the juice of my life, and 2) getting together with a friend and straying onto just the mere conversation of poetry again - I began to feel more like myself.

The Rabbit Room Poetry Hour (see link below) had a session (which I missed), but I took their prompt and used it the next day, and voila! This poem was born. (**sigh of satisfaction**)

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The prompt was to “choose one line you love that will form the backbone of a poem….begin each stanza with that line, repeating it with slight variations. Make each stanza expand the meaning of the line - moving from image to experience to something larger.” John Masefield’s poem: “Sea-Fever” was their sample inspiration.

"Sea-Fever" by John Masefield

In that aforementioned conversation with my friend, I’d been recommending one of my all-time favorite poems by Sir Francis Drake (which is written in the back of my Bible, because I love it so much) Introducing the inspiration for my poem! :) (Please give it a read below)

"Disturb Us, Lord" - by Sir Francis Drake

And that’s all! Thanks for listening to my little life updates. :) I appreciate you being here!

Until next time - have a blessed weekend and week!