Someone Who Inspires Me

So, it seems that poetry comes across my thoughts pretty consistently -- whether it's mine, or someone else's. Somehow poetry just fits the way my mind experiences the world.

When I did my senior paper in college, one of the professors who graded it paid me the great compliment of telling me my poetry reminds her of Denise Levertov's. Consequently, I went on to obsessively read nearly everything she's written. :) Here's one of hers that always makes me think. I enjoy her imagery and the way she shows you what she sees and feels, rather than telling you.

Enjoy. (And yes, eventually I'll get up the courage to show you some things I've been writing.)

Losing Track
by Denise Levertov
Long after you have swung back away from me I think you are still with me: you come in close to the shore on the tide and nudge me awake the way a boat adrift nudges the pier: am I a pier half-in half-out of the water? and in the pleasure of that communion I lose track, the moon I watch goes down, the tide swings you away before I know I'm alone again long since, mud sucking at gray and black timbers of me, a light growth of green dreams drying.