LJ Idol 10: Week 1: I need the struggle to feel alive

[rswndrlst]

A Pirate's Life for Me

I have this awful habit of jumping on sinking ships.

I end up as an eternal castaway. A diaspora of one; a nomadic lone wolf moving through life with all of my material wealth compacted into the space of a single steamer trunk that I grasp onto for dear life while trying to keep my head above water.
Marking the years by the

Comments

[bleodswean]

I liked this. Quite a lot. I love how you bookened your first and last sentence. The second to last paragraph is pure poetry.

[rswndrlst]

what lovely feedback! This comment is really everything to me right now <3

Thank you for reading.

[j0ydivided]

I love this.

[rswndrlst]

thank you!

[lilmissmagic71]

Oh, I love this...

[rswndrlst]

thank you!

[meridian_rose]

This one gets a vote from me :)

[rswndrlst]

Yay! Thank you!

[marlawentmad]

This is great, I have a poem published with the same title, "A Pirate's Life for Me," by my poetry group The Makeshift, but my piece took a much different journey than your entry!

[rswndrlst]

I almost titled it "the black spot" but wanted it to feel a bit more hopeful and also to give the "narrator" some sense of personal agency and culpability in their(my) circumstances.

I like to idealize the swashbuckling fantasy of the "golden age of piracy" even though I have read a lot of the actual historical accounts so I would be interested in reading your poem and your interpretaion of the theme.