Poetic ASMR's video: Poetic ASMR - The Art of Drowning Whispered poem with scratching sounds

Hello again ☺️ Today's video features a poem by Billy Collins called "The Art of Drowning" with scratching sounds in the background. I finally managed to have long nails again and thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity 😉 Poem: "The Art of Drowning" by Billy Collins I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence, could startle time into such compression, crushing decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds. After falling off a steamship or being swept away in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn't you hope for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand turning the pages of an album of photographs- you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat. How about a short animated film, a slide presentation? Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph? Wouldn't any form be better than this sudden flash? Your whole existence going off in your face in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography- nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned. Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance here, some bolt of truth forking across the water, an ultimate Light before all the lights go out, dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage. But if something does flash before your eyes as you go under, it will probably be a fish, a quick blur of curved silver darting away, having nothing to do with your life or your death. The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom, leaving behind what you have already forgotten, the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds. © Billy Collins, Poetry Magazine, October 1991. You can buy his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Drowning-Pitt-Poetry/dp/0822955679 The poem was taken from the following website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=38176 Video and sound were created by me and edited with iMovie, DaVinci Resolve, and Audacity. ____________________ Find me on Tingles: https://tingles.app.link/Poetic-ASMR My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PoeticASMR My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poeticasmr/ My Goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/PoeticASMR My Tumblr: https://poeticasmr.tumblr.com My Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/MissPoetic Find me on ASMRtags: https://asmrtags.com/c/Poetic%20ASMR Play Miramagia with me: http://bit.ly/PlayMiramagia ____________________ Sleep tight 😴