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The Mother Sea |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA 
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The sea calls to me with her calming power this most unforgiving body of hues of blue is most gentle in the time of grievous need. Cleansing the mind with the sounds of the surf attuning the senses with aromatic delight serenading with the melodies of gulls the caress of the waves removes all debris and my heart is once again free and pure. I follow the path where sandpipers played discovering a heretofore unseen shell put it to my ear and hear the call of distant shores ruled by her, my mother, the magnificent sea who acknowledges all as her children. The time will come that I will not leave here on these hills of water what remains shall be set free 'tis then I shall follow her lead and travel on through the vast dimensions of this, her realm. For now I am content to partake of this gift, the wonder she so generously bestows, this supremacy of nature we mortals call the sea. |
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Daddy Goose38 Member
since 2010-09-04
Posts 430obama's a rice paper tiger |
I just can't believe nobody has responded to this. I can not type enough or as my mind is racing with thought this evokes but I will come back ... from the sea. |
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Daddy Goose38 Member
since 2010-09-04
Posts 430obama's a rice paper tiger |
Hi word Weaver. I ordered a CD called sounds of the sea (though I can’t play it yet). I thought what a powerful effect to read your poem with the surging rhythmic elemental sound of the sea in the background. I have seen this done on Pip. I don’t know how to imbed music and voice and sound into a poem. My father use to do this and he was going to show me how to produce such works (he would send me cassettes) but he died. I just can’t get over how beautifully elemental this poem is … Part of mine says: I break the surface of the Ocean, The great, primordial womb, The cradle, the incubus of Life. I taste the salt of ages, The salt of humankind Knowing each of us is is all of us And all of us are one. How sad, it seems, That so many STILL don’t know this? I am wearing new equipment That has just now been developed. I know I will not drown And feel a wild, primeval freedom. I take off, Flying, through both the water and the air, And both hear and start to sing a song: The wind and the sea; The wind and the sea. We are one with the wind and the sea. The wind and the sea; The wind and the sea. We are one with the wind and the sea. |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA |
What a wonderful compliment. I thank you. I've always had an infinity for the sea and have lived close to it whenever possible. Marcia www.thewritingforum.net |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Wonderfully done, my friend. The sea has always been the most enigmatic of mysteries, touching all our senses at the same time - yet it is the most visible of wonders. Well done. j. |
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tuffluv66 Member
since 2011-05-13
Posts 121Iowa, U.S.A. |
I enjoyed this very much |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Calming and cleansing... and inspiring. *S* I've written some of my favorite words with the help of waves tickling my toes. *S* You've written the siren call so beautifully! |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
So many poets write of the sea as a calming influence. I am a little sad that I have never found that peace with the sea. Being born and raised in the piney woods of Arkansas I guess the sea was just a great body of water to me. After I found the sea (on both coasts and the gulf) I still never found the poetical peace I so desired, but ran from. During those decades of my life nothing would have given me peace. This was a beautifully rendered poem, Marcia, and I guess it triggered something in me and that is why I'm almost ranting. ~ If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it. ~ |
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ebonygirl Member Elite
since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000California U.S.A |
Enjoyed your poem, Word Weaver. Ms. e |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Deeply emotional piece, Marcia. quote: Taking what peace the sea offers until we are released to a place where sorrows cease is something I can certainly relate to. Beautiful words. |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Stunning write. JL  |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Oh, so beautiful! I am a water worshipper too, but I started with my lake in Switzerland ... before knowing the charms of the sea. In the sea's vastness we plunge with heart and mind and feel the onenes. Wonderful write, dear Marcia. Love, Margherita |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA |
Thank you for the wonderful comment Margherita. Marcia www.thewritingforum.net |
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