Tell me what you think I meant by this poem:

Not a clue, which is why I don't care much for poetry.

Reading it again, especially after reading your comment in the forum, it makes more sense to me, and I think it's very good!

Sheesh, I never was good at this sort of thing. It sounds as if you had been in a romantic relationship, but the SO didn't pay enough attention to you. You both drifted apart to a point where once the SO tried to win you back, it was too late.
No real understanding of seaside dwellers with algae-laden claws. Hermit crabs? Something about isolation? The claws represent a primitive grasp of something? Couldn't make it out.
Strange that for what seems a poem of love lost, it doesn't seem as if either party ever really cared about the other. If anything, the other in the poem sounds to have tried harder than the author to make the relationship work, though clearly it was the author that chose to ruminate over this episode with the above poem. I suppose it is just a musing over the SOs shortcomings. Fun survey, first one I've done like it.

I am a poem writer myself and I love this. It sounds to me like you had a not so nice situation, like somoene you loved passing away, or someone you loved left you. I myself write often about my father who passed away in sept of 03, such feelings can be a strong part of writing any story or poem. I love this poem, it shows the very feelings of your soul you are trying to convey, and you did a wonderfull job. My compliments to your poetry, keep it up!

I don't know.

I am dark, deep and I feel your prescription dreams
You are so far from me that you would know tomorrow
If I fell yesterday. Or crumbled. Or flew!

(person in the poem's got a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife who is heavily medicated, probably sleeping under the influence of sleeping pills or anyway kind of out of it; person speaking in the poem has problems too, he [I have this idea that the narrator is male and the other person woman]'s depressed as well, but he can't share his pain because the other person is at the point were you're so lost in your hell you don't care about others. The relationship could end and she wouldn't notice. Her sense of time is changed as well; this can be interpreted as a metaphor or as a real effect of the pills she takes.)


Into the arms of the seaside dwellers
They hold me up like you never could
With their algae-laden claws
I slip away as though I had nothing to hold on to

(This could be a dream or fantasy of suicide by drowning. But it can also be a metaphor for just letting go, "seaside dwellers" makes me think of whores at the port and the algae-laden claws to me conjures up images of sirens. He tries to forget the wife/girlfriend by abandoning himself to meaningless and dream-like sex with mystery women?)


I had no algae for you
And you had no claws

(I'm not sure of this part. )

I cannot hear you now
I have been taken out to sea
You did not fight the current
And now I am gone
I am gone

(it sums up 2nd verse: either a literal death by drowning caused by problems with a lover, or a spiritual drifiting away from love because of the attitude of the lover.)

Just the first idea. I can probably come up with different intepretations, but I would need time. I'm not sure of what you meant to write, but that's what I've seen in it. if it's "right" good, if it's not, well you discovered another shade in your poem.
(unless of course my comments don't make sense. I think they do. ).

It's indeed a good poem and a good survey.

I'm sorry,and forgive me if its rude, but I really don't like poetry or abstract art. My opinion is if you want to say something, don't beat around the bush-spit it out

That you are dead now?

You had it, but then you lost it. Or, rather, they lost you.

That you are dead?

With me being a Christian it sounds just like a person who is lost in their sin, or has drifted away from his or her life, it sounds like a person who is deeply depressed going through depression, I have been there myself and it is a very lonely place, you would not want to be there?

I think you came close and this is very good poem I agree, and it fits my life and maybe yours as well? I have gone through deep deep depression like being on an Island all by yourself and wanting to die or just kill yourself, and drifting away from life altogether, I am seeing a Therapist as of right now. I have been in mental wards in the very past many, many years ago.

Is it about bacon?

Sounds like it's about the end of a relationship.

I've gone through depression. I wouldn't really call it deep though. I tend to write "depressing" stuff myself mostly, even when I wouldn't really call myself depressed, it comes out that way. I think I'm simply more aware of things people usually dismiss as dark and depressing, and sometimes being so open can affect my mind, but mostly it's just the way I am.

great

i dunno. when i write poems i dont mean anything.

heh!

My interpretation. Parent is a drug abuser, child is now with a new support structure (maybe a new family) - algae-laden claws could be mean love, monetary support, friendship.. doesn't matter, the new environment has a give and take as apposed to the previous environment. The child is moving on now because the parent could live up to the standards.

If it was about bacon would you crumple the paper it is written on and eat it?

You don't really know me.
You don't really help me.
I never asked you for anything, but you never gave me anything either.
You've lost me now, and you didn't even fight it.

Basically, you suck.

It sounds like the old "I left my baby" theme with a little seaside twist.

I would say that you are in a bad relationship and have found other "things"to help you with your problems and they have taken hold of you and your gone now.....

i really don't know but maybe it's of like a break up- like with your boyfriend/ girlfriend. Don't be affended if it's not or anything.

how old are u?