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Tag Archives: oceans
Contraband: a chantey (shanty)
We never see the sight of land except to bury treasure; the nights we roll upon the sea are numbered beyond measure. Our toil and strife is never done, our sleep is but an hour; we cross the mighty waterways … Continue reading
Salt of the Earth
Imagine a person made completely out of salt. If that person chooses to be immersed in the ocean, their very being is absorbed by the sea. Once their head is beneath the waves, no distinction can be made between their … Continue reading
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Tagged illusions, infinity, oceans, parables, Ramakrishna, salt, substance
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A Different Kind of Shore
When one looks out past the breaking waves at ocean’s end those across the sea seem much less remote connected by this expanse of constant movement. Away from the sea In a great endless valley, peering at the edge of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged fear, knowledge, mystery, oceans, parables, shorelines, the unknown, travel
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Finding the Ocean (Again)
I have looked for long hours across the bay, sensing in the coming dawn some great sign; after my simple chores are done each day, when each minute spent does not seem so fine, along the windswept shore I roam, … Continue reading
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Tagged aloneness, daily poems, oceans, perceptions, shorelines, sonnet
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Finding the Ocean
I have lingered long by the endless shore, voice lost to the surf, that infinite shift that pulls itself from the littered ocean floor and upon which my thoughts float free and drift; for many years I saw only the … Continue reading