What does this poem mean?

engstrom0304 · 4 Jul 2014 at 02:22

Hey guys... What do you think the bold part of this poem means? Thanks

At dawn’s awakening, I heard your whisper

Across the ocean’s mournful wail

Your heart longs for a love yet to be found

But I have heard your yearning heart

And followed your footsteps in the sand

Hoping to meet you and end your journey

With the deepest love, waiting when you arrive

Where you’ll find my waiting arms

And my soft lips to shower you with kisses

I’m here to give you passion unsurpassed

And tenderness to sooth your longing heart

With this love as deep and vast

As the ocean you love so much

We are at an impasse on our journey

To a beautiful love we’ve discovered

That was awakened by the oceans shore

davido_labido · 4 Jul 2014 at 02:37

i think they accidentally put "oceans" rather than "geordie" on the last line.

asim18 · 4 Jul 2014 at 02:41

In line 6 they are hoping to meet you to end your journey of finding love.

In line 14 This journey is now at an impasse because the love has been found.

Throughout the poem I get suggestions that one is sand and the other is ocean. It seems the shore is where a connection happens, both literally as in the water and sand and metaphorically as in you and them.

Did you have sex on the beach?

Tummy · 4 Jul 2014 at 02:47

I have to do this all the time at Uni, I'm not doing in my spare time too

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Nix · 4 Jul 2014 at 02:49

Providing that the use of 'impasse' is correct and deliberate, I'm reading it as an unrequited love within the context of romantic fatalism. The author/narrator is pining after something that doesn't exist and cannot be.

The alternate reading is where the use of 'impasse' is incorrect, in which case something like 'intersection' -- although ugly -- would have been more accurate.

Beren · 4 Jul 2014 at 03:15

One gay sailor dude trying to seduce another, but the other one is still in the closet.

LOAM · 4 Jul 2014 at 03:19

He tried to put it up her impasse and she dumped him.

Efour · 4 Jul 2014 at 07:06

When you meet that special someone and poo through their letter box to show them what they mean to you, if they live on the beach?

Tom0 · 4 Jul 2014 at 07:07

You're the empty vase.

Skidder · 4 Jul 2014 at 07:44

The fella wants to do it up the bum, she's not up for it.

BuffetSlayer · 4 Jul 2014 at 08:11

All of your base are belong to us!

Cosimo · 4 Jul 2014 at 08:14

He's looking for lurve but the tide has washed it off the beach.

Adsta · 4 Jul 2014 at 08:22

Do your own assignment work !

[FnG]magnolia · 4 Jul 2014 at 08:24

It means that the undergrad who wrote it will be serving Big Macs for a living pretty soon.

Jesus Christ :/

Tuppy_Glossop · 4 Jul 2014 at 08:38

Fish ? Do I win £5 ?

Skidder · 4 Jul 2014 at 09:00

Cosimo said:
He's looking for lurve but the tide has washed it off the beach.

Ambergris, quick to the interweb.

bitslice · 4 Jul 2014 at 09:44

Skidder said:
The fella wants to do it up the bum, she's not up for it.

She's totally up for it, but is constipated.

wordy · 4 Jul 2014 at 09:45

It means you're gay for liking poetry.

Edrof · 4 Jul 2014 at 09:46

engstrom0304 said:
Hey guys... What do you think the bold part of this poem means? Thanks

I'm a well-good writer so I know about this stuff, yeah. The last three lines of the poem (what we writers call 'the end bit') are the poet expressing his belief that he likes big butts and he can't deny. Remember, I'm a writer. That means I'm righter than you.

[FnG]magnolia · 4 Jul 2014 at 09:51

I WENT TO THE BEACH AND YOU LOOKED RIGHT HOT
'WANT IT UP YOU, TARTY?' I SHOUTED LIKE AN OCEAN
'NO THANKS, YOU GOBBLER' YOU SCREAMED
IMPASSE ALL UP IN MY GRILL LIKE JIMMY HILL