Analysis of Cast Your Fate To The Wind
Consider me...a woman brown-hued, liquid-honey eyed...meandering along the never ceasing corridors of my mind...halting here and there as some great cosmic episode or another languidly reaches out to caress my thoughts as they ever-so-gently undulate around...about...within...through-out me...I am at once, transfixed ,akin to the Cobras prey as it is caught within the hypnotic death-dance the serpent holds it captive within! The Winds come next...west...east...north and south...those mighty forces of nature that I can do naught but submit to! The force of the winds lift and bear me aloft...so gently they cradle me...and I am held...lost within some awesome epiphany created just for me...Surrender they chant in melodious glory...as their tendrils of heavenly might continue to roll and rock me as if we are in the throes of some ancient mating frenzy...the winds lift me ...gliding thru each and every particle of my mortal being...with a sigh I finally surrender...joint as one with the winds which claim me as their own...I am as close to completion as I've ever been--- as close as I surely will ever be...I have found my oh-so- long quested for niche! I have found that semblance of myself---I have decidedly Cast My Fate To The Wind.
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| Characters | 1,249 |
| Words | 221 |
| Sentences | 26 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1 |
| Lines Amount | 1 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 960 |
| Words per line (avg) | 202 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 960 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 202 |
About this poem
This is a journey of/Through Self...A quest, if you will for Retrospect...seeking to find and share with the Universe at large, the true essence of myself...an American- born and bred African-American "Black woman", whose journey from childhood thru the angst-ridden years of young adulthood....capitulating to and fro...searching for my rightful niche within (and oftentimes without) the "Baby-boomer" sub-culture into which I'd been born. This original poem reflects my sentiments on this issue. ..My quest for self-actualization as I traverse thru the forest of life...thru childbearing...thru dark places where the abyss often threatened not only to overwhelm my very soul, but devour the core-essence of me! At the time/present, I, in my twilight years, remain a " work in progress"...The journey carries on...As, Do, I. more »
Submitted by lauriemclemore76 on December 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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