Salmon Leap Comments

This poem is beautiful just in the words themselves. The images are so evocative for me. You start with a lonely, but beautiful setting by a waterfall and then compare that to the lonely recesses of the speaker's mind. I love the line, 'tenuous suburbs of my soul.' For me, this metaphor imparts deep meaning and it just seems fresh and original. Finally, you bring in so much when the speaker compares his life's journey to that of the salmon. The final three lines makes one stop and think..... what is the speaker really trying to say? What does this life really mean? What is it all for? Is there something deeper? I had to look up the word 'orisons.' I hadn't used this term as a part of my regular vocabulary...prayer..but I like the sound of the word and the fact that it is very close to the word, horizons. Very imaginative bit of writing and I enjoyed reading it. This is very well done.