From Here to Where?

If you were only to read the poem Migrations by Dorian Merina you would not have enjoyed the poem as I did. Watching the video, full of shapes and colors in motion and listening to the music makes you feel as if you were taking a journey with the author through his poem.

“On the boats come the goods that cross the waters
Like veins and blood rushing
The goods cross the water.”

With that first verse you don’t only feel you are on a boat but you know that the poem shows how the ocean is the main source of migration and how everything started moving through it. Just “like veins and blood rushing” through your body, cultures, knowledge, food, beliefs and even people move through the ocean. The words in other languages and in general the words he uses make you feel from home sort of like a tourist but not precisely because you are accepting the wide range of cultures that Dorian expresses.

The poem creates a connection between the reader and the author that would not be possible otherwise because with this poem the author has more than one way to transmit his emotions. Words, shapes, colors and music all link together to create a migration experience of a movement of ideas because the poem itself migrates it starts at the beginning and then flows with the different words and you actually feel as if you get from one place to another.