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| Redon, coquille (1912) |
Dearest Ocean,To live in creation and not indestruction, recognize the miraclesof breath, heartbeat, and blood.The blood that carries oxygenand its by-products through meswarms with the miracle of love.Each molecule delights in movingstrength along its way. My heart enjoyssinging while it works, and then echoes backthrough each ocean shell. Do you, too,take pleasure in life’s stubborn persistence,its roaring, churning, laughing in song?Do you hear my heartbeat as I hear yours,steady as earth's trip around the sun,steady as moon's journey around the earth?You quote storms to me, but I recalland celebrate instead the day to daylow tide and high, sure as our dearest love.
Posted for Mary's prompt "Letters" at What's Going On?
*Revised from Ocean, Love, 10 April 2016.
What a wonderfully celebratory and joyful letter to the ocean - beautifully captured
ReplyDeleteAh, "to live in creation and not destruction" -- your poem HAD me with those words! You have written to the ocean beautifully, expressing all that you have to celebrate! Lovely writing.
ReplyDeleteI love your letter to the ocean, Susan, especially the lines:
ReplyDelete‘My heart enjoys
singing while it works, and then echoes back
through each ocean shell
and
‘Do you hear my heartbeat as I hear yours,
steady as earth's trip around the sun,
steady as moon's journey around the earth?’
There are so many miraculous things happening within and outside and just to be aware of them! "...life’s stubborn persistence, / its roaring, churning, laughing in song?" A beautiful celebration of life this is and it is to 'live in creation'. Life's steady flow is what we want , not destruction. And that addressing is absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful, to address the ocean so beautifuly. Lovely, Susan.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love the notion of composing a letter to the ocean. I often stop to marvel at the unseen workings of the earth, the planets, or something as small as my own body. I wonder at it all.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful. I totally agree - the response to those who speak of the world's storms is in love and the mystery of life itself. Suzanne _ Wordpress blog - Wayfaring.
ReplyDeleteSusan,
ReplyDeleteI felt as though I could hear the ocean through a shell, from reading your poem.
A lovely uplifting read whilst acknowledging the downs encountered.
Your letter to the ocean was a joy to absorb..
"you quote storms to me"... I've had the best conversations with the sea, growing up... I love the idea of writing the ocean a letter... I'm inspired!
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful. I have often talked to the sea when I've had the chance to be with it.
ReplyDeleteYour poem has made me miss living near the ocean. I need to visit some shorelines again.
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