Writing Practice - Poetry

One of my goals in life is to improve my writing. As a journalist, I tend to write concise and to the point. I'm trying to add some "life" to my writing. 

With that goal in mind, I recently purchased a journal called, "Write the Poem." Each day, it provides a theme and eight, word associations. Today's theme was, The Ocean. The word associations were: billows, deep, brine, offing, wave, flux, tide, and current. So here goes my attempt at poetry:

The Ocean - image created by Ai

The Ocean

The ocean is deep, 

With waves that billow

And rage across the miles.

Brine floats in the air

Filling my nostrils with the perfume of the sea.

Wave after wave crashes against my raft

As I float…

Drift…

Bob…

Weave to and fro.

The tide moving me onward

To an unknown destination

Like the currents of life.

I try to control them

But I can't.