Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
in that gray vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
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Am I the only one reading slavery/emancipation/civil rights into this?
I love rocks and nature you brought the words nicely together thanks
Ive been searching poems about history and I found this, great poem love it.
I read this poem out loud and the words came out of me from depths of my being, like they were written in me before I was born.
My first time reading this. For me it’s impressive as a sustained metaphor and for its descriptions of things in the sea and parallels of them to things above. -GK
Treasure of history is within sea! Many are unearthed and many more need to be found out to know human origin still and so, history has begun indeed!
It seems like one risen from the bottom of the sea to be familiar with the evolution and manifestation of civilization called history..........very insightful........composed brilliantly........thanks for sharing
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Derek Walcott is the greatest poet that ever lived. Such amazing worlds in words.
powerful! keep writing! could you read and comment on my poems too? thank you.
good i like this i like all nature