Deep, Dark, Penetraiting cool all around
The current swaying in an age old dance
The sun from up above is blaring down
The crystal and saphire blue is enhanced

The water supports you gentle rocking,
Never rough, a friend that is always there
But its great power is always shocking
A relationship you can never tear

I can't comprehend your complexities
The life force of all creatures here on earth
The home to so many entities
You are where i hope to have my rebirth

The ocean at hauula calms my mind
There, my soul i can search and learn to find.

Being Hawaiian, and living in Hawaii, the beach is an interagal part of your life. This is true for me even more so because during the first year of my life I was raised practically on the beach. My dad would take me all of the time. I don’t get to go to the beach often anymore with my busy schedual. Over the Easter weekend, I had the chance to spend the weekend in a beach house on the East side. This trip helped me to realize my deep love for the ocean and all its splendor.
In my first stanza, I talk about the water itself. I talk about the current as an "age old dance." I used this phrase because of how the current moves on gracefully like the ballroom dancers of the 1940's and 1950's. I have also had a great love for the finer arts such as ballroom dancing so I compared these two in my sonnet. I also describe the perfect day to be in the water. The bright sun shining so clearly from up above that the many shades of blue seem to be richer then ever.
I consider the ocean to be a friend. My second stanza explains how I feel after not being able to go to the beach for a long time and finally making it there. "Never rough, a friend that is always there." I used these words because whenever I do make it to the beach the ocean seems to be reading my mind on how I want the water to be. It is never rough to me, just calm and welcoming, no matter how long the time has been since we have seen each other. I think of the ocean as a living entity. This is because engrained in me is the deep love and caring for the ocean from my Hawaiian heritage.
At the beach house, when I was thinking of the third staza of my sonnet, I was having a writers block. In order to help me clear my head I went out and just floated on the water. Then I started to wonder about the ming-boggaling complexities of the ocean. That inspired me to write about how the ocean is "the life force of all creatures here on earth." After all, the first organisms on earth came from the ocean. I have also never understood completely how we rely so much on the ocean but just floating there seem to make it click in my head. We can't survive with out the ocean.
The last two lines of my poem actually reaveal that I am talking about the beach at Hau'ula. No matter how many beaches I go to, I still seem to have an affinity for Hau'ula. The water there is always calm and has just enough waves to have some fun. The water is also so clear there. Compared to Waikiki, the beach I normally go to, the water is untouched. It feels like I am swimming through time, back to the days when no body knew what polution was. It also gives me a warm feeling in side because, my family is not very close, but this last time I went out there, I reconnected with my family and since then, our bond is so much stronger then ever before.