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THE SEA CRADLE

 

The Sea:
Rocking Cradle of the World
Sunset Stairway to the Stars
Only by Great Masters Trod
Only Written on by God.

 

IT SNOWS AT SEA

 

It Snows At Sea
Quiet Falls
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in flakes
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Melting designs

leave form
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for All.

 

RAIN AT SEA

 

Rain on the sea....

a redundancy?
as are reflected fires
neath ignited stars?

 

MAVOORNING

 

Out of the sea
the sun aborning
with his awesome
light of morning
Not adorned
but all adorning
says to you
"Come!
My Mavoorning!"

 

 

ORANGE AND AQUA

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The orange orb rising
on the ocean's horizon
we see

immersed in maya sea
it threaten to divide
aqua sky from blue sea
but it only multiplies
their unity

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WATER HELD THE QUILL

 

 

Faster than any stylus squiggling
Can write the sun in the water wiggling
But when the sea is perfectly still
it appears it was water which held
the quill.

 

(to artist and vegan

 

activist Mark M Braunstein)

 

 

DUNE GRASS BRUSHES

 

 

From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint the blue sky
jade

 

 

HURRICANE KATE

 

 

Hurricane Kate
forced proud palms
to padnamasakar
the humble ocean

 

Because she the sea
everywhere has feet
it's not hard for them
to show their devotion

 

 

(to EKB)

 

 

COCONUT PITCHER

 

 

The full moon poured
pitcher after pitcher
of coconut milk
into the sea..
and the sea..
she silvered it all.

 

 

(to Ruth Zaid Thomas

 

who spent 78 of her 98

 

years as a worker for

 

peace and the poor)

 

 

 

 

SEA PITCHER

 

 

I gave him a pitcher.
He gave me the sea.

 

(to C Lassell and D Nixon)
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FOAM LACE TABLE CLOTH

 

 

Mother Earth set daisy tables that
upon them bees might sit.

 

Mother Earth
set buttercups
that from them
bees might sip sunup

 

Mother Sea.. threw a foamlace
tablecloth over the flat rock
in the bay..
that her fishies might dine..
and when they were finished
she slid it off and sudsed the
rock clean with her surf.

 

 

SEA NILE

 

 

Where to salt water
turns the sweet
Where aqua becomes
royal navy
Where robins slowly
become sea gulls
And the linear
to spherical
gives sway

 

is where the
sea is wed
to Nile..
Some thought
the Nile
was senile..
but he was far beyond
earth's cares
merged in the ecstasy
.. of the ebbtide sea
.. only a murmuring
to say where he'd merged

 

 

LAVA TURNED TO JEWELS

 

 

She the sea
.. receives red hot
lava
and transmutes it
into green glass jewels.

 

She the listening compassionate
ear
turns anger into
love.

 

 

SEAS OF PEACE

 

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The tides of the seas
do wane and cease
.. but the waves of the sea
have no surcease
.. Yet these restless waves
do give us peace
.. all on her sands healed
by her perfect peace

 

 

SHROUD TO SAIL

 

 

The shroud in which she did lie
is now sail for ship of joy.
Her tomb's boulder now
the cornerstone of resurrection.
The mist which clouded mirror
of soul
replaced by God's reflection
and ice of pain on sea did
melt..
it now flashes sun's perfection.

 

(to JBO)

 

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SEA RECEIVES ALL LONELY RIVERS

 

 

Receives all arrows
the universal quiver
as the sea receives
all lonely rivers
as the sea purifies
all polluted rivers
as the sea
calms all
ruffled rivers

 

(to E A Hubiak)

 

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PEACEMAKERS

 

 

At times they crash upon the shore
.. sometimes they gently lap
sometimes.. they roll
sometimes they scroll
these waves.. these peacebreakers
.. never breaking the peace..
these peacemakers

 

 

FOUR NATIONS

 

 

In poisonous prussic acid they
dipped
their lethal harpoon tips

 

and Norway's Svend Foyn
developed a gun torpedo
.. a karmic tornado
to whales with mechanical
harpoons
slay in calm or in typhoons

 

(to the people of Japan, Norway,
Iceland and the US .. please stop
this ancient barbarism as the last
5 nations to slay whales

 

 

OCEAN CROWN

 

 

Changing landscapes
but the seascape..
one cannot look at its surface
and know if it is 2003 BC or 2000 AD

 

Neath the wingweave
of gulls..

 

they tossed a wreath upon her
to give her a crown
How absurd.. this tiny little
crown.. upon her infinite
immensity

 

.. but she is not interested
in honors from earth..

 

and she swept it to the shore

 

 

NEPTUNE AND THE MOON

 

 

The full moon
is a
mate of Neptune
Into the silent
mirroring sea
was thrown a stone
which shattered her face
but calm was restored
and the healed icon
was ensconced
once again in her
watery throne...
He did her array
in azure seaspray
.. and made
a necklace
which heightened her
rays and
let no drop
go astray

 

 

ARRIVE SHE SHALL

 

 

Beyond shallows
where
conch has left
his shelter
for a less confining shell
Past sunslivers
quivering
in waves' gentle swell
Away from softly
lappin tidalpools'
diurnal upwell
Daily to her quiet
seasoul
for a brief spell
.. come she shall

 

 

3 WAVE STEPS

 

 

3 tiers
of waves
.. each of them
starred by the
diamond sun
3 rings
.. a triple crown
.. for the horse
as she entered the sea

 

 

CALL OF THE SEA

 

 

Ubiquitous is the voice of the Sea
in the steady raindrops'
beating of the leaky roof's
peachcan drum...
in the trickle of
spring's melting snow
..
in the brook's cheery chirping
wintershaking
as he seaward faster flows

 

in summer's lightning
and rainpour
in the waterfall's awesome roar

 

in powerful Mississippi's silent murmur
in the portal waves' omkar*

 

Millenial temple to Poseidon
stands on his shores..
its granite rectangles
crumbling.. while His
pourable Blueness remains.

 

Rockgirt tide pools,
and bonegirt eye depths
remind us of Him.

 

Down from his heights
His Royal Lowness Piscean
calls
his brother
Capricorn
From her crystallized opposition
with the magnetism of His
limitless pull
He calls Mother Earth.

 

How does he heal? the sea?
With his lowlying humility?
Proud rivers must stoop
to take padnamaskar.
In every conch shell
hear his gulls.
In every place where
lovewaters gather and pool..
hear his call..
summoning all to his
vastness his majesty

 

Sooner or later every drop
will
rush to His call.

 

(to the 12th chamber in everyone's
soul mansion)
* based on Baba's sentence
(to the Avatar and all His children drops)
(padnamaskar: touching the feet of the Guru)

 

 

COBBLER

 

 

I am the tree
which made the
peach which
became the cobbler,
said the peachtree.
I cobbled the street,
said the stone.
I cobbled the sea,
said the wind.
I made the wind
so I cobbled the sea,
said God.