If the Largest Ship Could Feel Its Own Waves: A Collection of Philosophical Poetry

By Oda Punkt

This poetry collection describes the state of melancholy, yet it draws into the state of grief as well. Sorrow is the longing after something specific which we lost. Melancholy is the longing after something which we never had because it can never exist. This collection of philosophical poetry describes the macro aspect of the truth longing for humanity, and the micro aspect of the human grieving the disconnection from a loved one.

The opaque symbolism touches an emotional nerve, and the reader discovers how she/he truly feels when confronted with the power of harm and the concept of having nothing to lose.

The question that remains is, can you be saved? Can humanity be saved? In the end the biggest obstacles are the ones we place in the road ourselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Sep 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666751819

Oda Punkt

Oda Punkt lives in Norway and has traveled extensively. Her work has appeared in The Dream Catcher Magazine (2016), Crosswinds Poetry (2019), and other journals and magazines.

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If the Largest Ship Could Feel Its Own Waves

A Collection of Philosophical Poetry

By Oda Punkt

If the Largest Ship Could Feel Its Own Waves

A Collection of Philosophical Poetry

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1: HALLWAY

Not Among Us

Before the Storm

Direction

Dikaios

A Dry World

Risen

Surface

Slice

Humanity Has the Morning

Pillar

PART 2: FAMILY PORTRAIT

The Line

Within It Sounds a Faded Song

Vision

The Dance

Caretaker

The Truth of Winter

Prophetic Pop Songs

Never

Superiority

Solid

The Making of a Heartbreaker

Black and White Meadow

PART 3: WARDROBE

All the Sunshine

My Ancient Robes of Life

Smoke and Mirrors

Fortress of Memory

Obstacle

Sometimes

Underground

For Fucks Sake

Before the Flaying

Inversion

PART 4: WEDDING DRESS

The Waterlily and the Fishermen

The Mountain

Cinderella

Edges

Denial and Isolation

The Unlikely Memories

To Waste it All

No Dogs in the Doorway

Parasitical Symbiosis

Seashell

Tideless

Undying

Orange

PART 5: WHEN COLOR FOLDS

Corner Moon

The Fold

Bad Choices

Black

Snarvei

Shortcut

The Wave

Promise

Gullable

Rope

PART 6: THE FIRST RIPPLE

My Funny Valentine

Machine Gun Confusion

What if the Clouds Are a Fog?

Brand New Heaven

No Title

Point

Vacation from Destiny

Pinocchio

Joke

Light

Fourth Dimension

To those who fought naked under a red sky

Wake the water to remember me by

—Oda Punkt

This is the first time you have been invited to my house. Before you come in, take a deep breath, and try to memorize the way out

Preface

Long ago I learned the power of anti, the way that one extreme gives life to the opposite one-, and the-way emotion is built from the suppression of it.

I see political activists speak their minds, but every mind is filtered, and every word tailored to reach only those who already agree. With all the social rules imposed by each subculture, every individual is frozen, and the world is at a standstill.

There is a way to bring the tension of this paralysis into action. There is a way to transform the suppression of thought into freedom of speech.

I accept all realities as equal, and I am not here to