Envoi (Port Trakl) Poem by Daniel Brick

Envoi (Port Trakl)

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Isn't this the right moment
for saying Good-Bye: Let's part
now: a kiss, a final embrace,
perhaps a few words inspired
by the occasion, something
memorably poetic, like:
All our partings happened yesterday.

'Will you return soon? ' you ask
persistently. 'Will I be the one
you remember best? ' you insist.
Darling, if I knew answers
to those questions, I would not
have sojourned at Port Trakl.
Isn't it sufficient to say:

'Life is an Enigma.' What other
word is big enough to encompass
what we are, what we do,
what we become? When I'm gone,
walk every day along the beach,
where the surf relentlessly
pounds the land mile after mile.


Those waves will have first
pounded my ship, tossed
my crew back and forth,
threatened the safety of
our cargo, made us wonder
why we became sailors. But
the real wonder is -

The boundlessness of the sea,
of which there is no end. It
carries us and our dreams
over the crests of great waves, or
gently propels us in league
with the stars and the wind.
We are summoned to its greatness.

Monday, September 28, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: adventure,journey
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bharati Nayak 10 December 2016

-Those waves will have first pounded my ship, tossed my crew back and forth, threatened the safety of our cargo, made us wonder why we became sailors. But the real wonder is - The boundlessness of the sea, of which there is no end. It carries us and our dreams over the crests of great waves, or gently propels us in league with the stars and the wind. We are summoned to its greatness.

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Souren Mondal 03 October 2015

The best thing about your poems, in my humble opinion, is that I can read them again and again until the meaning keeps getting in me.. And each time I feel enchanted by them.. The poem reminded me of Nietzsche's line ''Many die too late and some die too early. Still the doctrine sounds strange: 'Die at the right time' Die at the right time: thus Zarathustra teaches I assume the poem is about a dying man's last words to someone he loved, probably his wife. And he is saying that life would go on as life had gone on, with or witout him.. The sea is perhaps a metaphor for the continuous flow of time, with the waves hitting the shore hard perhaps suggest the hard blows of time.. But the poem perhaps has a really deep message that life is continuous. A single person may die, but humankind as a whole will continue.. We will be at Port Trakl. Can we avoid it? No, we cannot help being born. One of my favourite Bengali writer Samaresh Basu put it up that way in a novel of his.. Once born, we will all, someday have an inevitable voyage at Port Trakl... Thank you for sharing sir, and as I have said before, I come to read your poems when I need goosebumps.. Thank you so much..

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Paul Sebastian 01 October 2015

Saying goodbye is heartbreaking and making a statement of your life so that you are best remembered. You life experience in the sea of life tells volume of the the seasoned sailor. Thank you for sharing a piece of your life!

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Pamela Sinicrope 29 September 2015

So this is the end of the poem? Envoi- concluding ballad of a poem.... I want more. Is there more? Will you return soon?

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Kelly Kurt 28 September 2015

I wonder sometimes why I became a 'sailor'. One reason is to experience the thoughts of others, written as lovely as this poem. Thanks, Daniel

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