drowning

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.___ules Finn

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

When she was eighteen years old she had almost drowned in the Kennebec River, not because of the pummeling current, but because she couldn't come up with a casual phrase with which to call for rescue. "Help!" was such a cliche. By the time she was willing to scream, she had no breath left, and it was just blind luck that somebody saw her gasping and floundering and pulled her to shore. "Why didn't you say something?" they wanted to know, and she said, "I'm not a screamer." "Jesus," said one of them, "couldn't you have made an exception this one time?" "Apparently not," she said.

He stops rocking and looks into my eyes. We__e inches apart and I__ mesmerized by the tiny flecks of indigo in his blue eyes. A girl could drown in those eyes. And it wouldn__ be the worst way to go.

I think we ought to find something else to do,_ said Mandy. __ut Alecto my love, you__e the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project.___ like it. It's got that let__-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance,_ Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed.

Tell her thisAnd more,__hat the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

Even the laziest person will fight for oxygen when drowning.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

So I was a stone in the sea. Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to swim and so I sank to the bottom with no will to turn back. ____ tired,_ I told him. ____ done_.But he wouldn__ let me and he held me up even on his hardest days and he was a lighthouse when all I saw was darkness.

If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?

Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek! You could be Alex SQUARED!

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they__ either start to decompose immediately or they__ get eaten by fish or other scavengers. The bones would eventually sink down to the seabed and either be slowly buried by marine silt or broken down further over the years, but the flesh would one way or another eventually become water, which would evaporate into clouds and then rain down upon the earth once again to become plants and flowers.The flowers in your garden could once have been famous pirates such as Blackbeard or Calico Jack.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.